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04-20-2019, 07:04 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Milwaukie, OR
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When setting up an online password you are often asked some "secret" questions to help regain that password. Often, one of the questions is "Dream Job?". My answer is "retirement".
Shh...don't tell anyone. It's a secret
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Jeff & Sandi (and Teddy - 7lb Schnorkie)
2018 Montana High Country 305RL
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Demco Recon Hitch on RAM Puck Ball
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04-20-2019, 07:29 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: nm
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Country living here , I'm ready for a road trip and ready to come home and catch up what has been untouched since we left . That's retirement for us .
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2018 1 ton 4x4 c.c standard bed GMC Denali
Anderson ultimate hitch
2015 311 Impact Fusion toy hauler
2018 Milwaukee 8 FLRTU roadglide glide ultra
2018 800 Z force spot BUGGY.
500 watts of solar enough power for boon docking.
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04-20-2019, 09:06 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Liberty, Texas
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I retired at age 58 in 2008. Spent a year watching our new house being built. Then I got talked into working again for the same company. I worked contract for 5 years. Loved it. Out on my own answering to just one person. No 8am production meetings, no bureaucratic BS. Travelled a lot, from Bellingham WA, to Buffalo NY, to Laredo Texas. I would do it again.
I was very interested in genealogy before we retired. Now when we take a trip we usually tie it into family history.
I would recommend one thing that I wish I had done. Sit down with your parents and a video camera and interview them. Their childhood, their family, etc.
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2018 Heartland Landmark 365 Oshkosh
2008 Bigfoot 25C9.4 LB Cabover
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04-20-2019, 09:57 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: W. Texas
Posts: 17,686
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gearhead
I retired at age 58 in 2008. Spent a year watching our new house being built. Then I got talked into working again for the same company. I worked contract for 5 years. Loved it. Out on my own answering to just one person. No 8am production meetings, no bureaucratic BS. Travelled a lot, from Bellingham WA, to Buffalo NY, to Laredo Texas. I would do it again.
I was very interested in genealogy before we retired. Now when we take a trip we usually tie it into family history.
I would recommend one thing that I wish I had done. Sit down with your parents and a video camera and interview them. Their childhood, their family, etc.
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You hit the nail on the head with that statement. There were so many tales told about the family, their history etc. by my parents, my extended family and my grandmother - man, the stories. My mom and grandmother grew up on an indian reservation in OK. They used to sing songs in the native indian language that were really pretty....now, all gone. I can sometimes remember the musical notes but the words.....can't remember. Used to make salves that they learned there that actually worked....maybe not pleasant, but functional. A lost art now.
In those days we didn't have video cameras and in some cases I would have been too young to have one, but in this day and age I would encourage anyone/everyone to do what gearhead suggested and document it. Ask the questions, let them reminisce and tell of their lives and the family. When you get to be the "old" one it will be a piece of living history and mean a lot IMO.
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2019 Ram 3500 Laramie CC SWB SB 6.4 4x4 4.10
2020 Montana High Country 331RL
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04-20-2019, 12:40 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Fruitland
Posts: 3,357
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Retirement, what's that. I retired at 53, took up another PD job for 2 days a week, that turned out to be 3 or 4 days a week. Wanted to move to the beach house and live ever after. No, I am a sucker for paid job. Sold that home to not have to maintain it. I also took on a council position in the city I live in, part time. After 5 years, I wanted to quit that this year, mayor really wants me to stay, okay. I wanted to write books and yeah got 1 done on #2 now. Told the paid job, I will only work 1 day a week from now on, I have too much to do.
Got to get the boat ready to get some fresh salmon, hope next week the river will be ready. Wife wants the TT ready to go camping, today I will be on the roof cleaning, tomorrow the rest. Publisher expected book #2 in May. Not going to happen, maybe July. Spend this morning getting the spa ready after winter. At least it is working OK.
Only thing I force myself to do daily is to take a nap. Just not when in a police vehicle.
I am enjoying life and it is actually much less stressful than wearing a PD uniform 5 days a week and on call every other week after work.
Someday I will slow down.
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2013 Ford F350 4x4 CC 6.7 engine, 8 ft bed, 3.55 rear end, lariat package
Retired from Oregon State Police in 2011 than worked another 9.5 years as a small town traffic cop:
As of 05-2020, I am all done with 39 years total police work. No more uniforms for me.
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04-20-2019, 02:37 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Liberty, Texas
Posts: 5,034
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Yeah Danny many of us have a rich cultural heritage but you have a gold mine. Besides the questions, and answers, I would be interested in, my grandkids would have had a look at my Mom and Dad. It's just not to be. I try to mentally collect the circumstances my parents grew up in. My Mom told a lot of stories about growing up but my Dad was the silent strong type. My Mom went to college but my Dad was on his own early. He followed the timber industry in Louisiana and east Texas until WWII. Then owned a couple small businesses until he became a union Ironworker. I just wish my grandkids had the opportunity to see and listen to their great grandpa that worked many stories in the air walking I-beams.
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