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   fhb2532
   

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   In the "What are you smoking?" thread Cortez says he's retired atlast. How many members are retired, what did you do, how do you like retirement, and what do you do to keep busy?
   For me I became disabled/retired 8 years ago. After a few years health problems I regained my interest in pipe smoking last summer, I found this site on my birthday this year and turned into a chimmeny I can hoestly say that pipe smoking saved my life, pulling me out of deppression. Now I smoke my pipes hang out on this site and (gasp) watch tv with arenewed zest for life. Oh yeah, I worked 32 years as an electronic tech.

   Frank

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   Cool Frank! I mean not the disabled part. But ypou know what I mean. Found an enjoyable life.

   I have 15 years of working left IF I'm lucky. Turn 43 this month anf with no kids to get thru college and then quasi support for a few years I only have to worry about me (well US). But 15 is likely wishful thinking. But if I could hang it up at 60 that would be cool. I have partial pension from State Farm where I worked 11 years. And have a great pension and retirement plan with my current employer.

   My wife is 10 years younger and is in her first year of a 2nd career as a teacher. She was a Sr. Manager at FedEx before that.

   So I expect she'll work for another 30 years at least.

   I'm not going to be the stick around to the bitter end guy. One of my guys has a manager working for him who is 66 and still keeps working. He's definitely not broke. He has a life outside of work. But he still keeps working right along. I admire his determination but that will not be me. As soon as I can maintain my current living level without working I am OUTA HERE! Love my job. Really do. But it's still a job.

   I won't see any communication directed to me here. I'm no longer active at this forum.

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   me, i am in the same boat. i am med retired and i HATE it. for the last 18 years it was 10-12 hours a day 6 days a week down to nothing starting last december. now nothing...

   so, pipes, cigars and books keep me a little sane...

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   I'm 58 and in the process of fighting for a disability due to a worn out back. I keep busy with my woodwork and blacksmith work when i am able. Otherwise it's enjoying my pipes and doing research into the Viking age.

   If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.

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   Uncle. Are you up to Fran Tarkenton yet?

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   I have along way till retiring, I'm only 28. Must be nice guys. Happy to hear pipesmoking saved you frank.

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   RJ... Dude I loved to watch Tarkenton play ball when I was a kid. The Vikings playing outside, now that was the way football was meant to be played. Go figure here I was a kid growing up in Phoenix Arizona and my favorite team at the time was the Minnesota Vikings.

   Sorry Arthur!

   "United States"
   
   As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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   Retired a year and a half ago two months after my 66th birthday and loving it. Yard work, reading and this Infernal Damned Machine keep me busy. For the first time since High School I'm re-reading Homer. I've made it to Book Five of The Odyssey.

   I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

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   Wrong Vikings! LOL

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    Hey Chuck.....
    Everybody dies in the end....

    Oh wait that's Hamlet.

    Sorry!

    
    My Pipe Slide Show
    

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    Oh Uncle so you're more the Joe Capp era? :>)

    I know I know. I as just attempting (miserably it seems) to inject a bit of humor.

    The "real" Vikings are fascinating; but I know little about them except the likely flawed common portrayal.

    They looked like members of GWAR and enjoyed boating.

    RJ

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    HAHAHA I can see that jonesing.

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    I actually envy you who are retired. I still have 20 years to go before I get to do it :(.
    My dream is to become independently rich so I can just quit working and then travel around the world, collecting Dunhill and other expensive pipes and tobaccos.

    At least we have 4 week summer vacations here :).

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    I can only dream about retiring with two kids in college starting next fall and one still in high school.

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    I'm 37 and with a girl in kindergarten and a boy in diapers. Retirement? What's that? I gotta stay sane for another 25 years or so.

    Simon

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    Hmm... Retiring....

    Well I gues I should start working first, right?
    At times I think it's good to be young.
    On the other side, I'm getting a bit tired of this society I'm living in.
    So yeah, I just want to live on without having to do anything.
    And with the possibillity to do anything.

    But I think that's something that's unheard of in this world.

    

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    I was born to be retired. And I am.

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    I like to work; they can put a sign that says "RETIRED" on my casket.

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    Wrong Vikings! LOL

    

    The only retiring I do is at the end of a work day with a pipe.

    Frank, congratulations on retiring and enjoying it

    "Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time."
    
    Thomas Carlyle

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    I'm 55,but with the economy as bad as it is, and how fast the money goes, I'll have to retire as they haul me out of work dead, on a gurney.

    "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
    - Benjamin Franklin
    

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    well, glad to here you guys enjoy retirement. hope you young guys get to retire when you want and with your health. i will be 53 next month. currently i still work and i will celebrate 33 years service on 1-18-12. i was hired in jan 18 1979 @ the age of 19 years old. i work for a chemical company. iam also a retired volunteer firemen with 23 years service with lyndon fd in louisville ky. when i retire all i want to do is relax with my pipes and my chair.

    take care all.

    mike.

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    I was on vacation from work. My Store Manager called on friday and said he had
    some bad news. I asked him if they laid him off.I was hi supervisor and ran his store
    when he when on vacation. He said "No it is you".. I said lets get the paper work done.
    A good severance pay, cobra less than what I was paying while working and retired the next day,
    63 years old, and filed for unemployment benefits.
    That was in June 2009. Took a few years to straighten out and those gadgets I bought
    while working is in full use now.
    Worked for the company for 30 years and still are friends.
    Joe2shoes

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    Sorry had to correct my spelling. My system when haywire. Fixed it.
    After over 40 years selling cat/tractor/truck parts. Did not to speak or spell
    right to sell parts. Just sell the right thing first. hardest was to clear the cursing
    after retirement.
    Joe2shoes

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    Kudos to all of ya enjoying your retirement!
    I'm one o' those schmoes that through a combination of poor planning, less than wise decisions and plain ol' bad luck will be working up to the last call.

    As Frank said a year ago when he started this thread, I've got my pipe to fend off the blues and bring a smile when it's most needed.

    Snus, snuff and briar.
    Not much more required in a day.
    Brian from Oregon USA

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    Been retired 10 years now. Love it. As for things to do? After I retired, I got two partime jobs, and worked another 8 years.
    Finally after working for 46 years at one thing or another, I finally decided to stay home.

    Photography takes up a lot of my time now. I also am a watch geek, and have a small accumulation of them. I still read a lot, and have my pipes to sit with me during the quiet times. I take small vacations when money permits. Oh yeah, I also have my girlfriend, who happens to be 11 years younger than me, to take up the slack. ( I hope she doesn't read this).

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    Retirement ? Sjees... I'm 45, love to work, but am slowly getting to the point where I could see myself sitting out on the patio with a pipe, book and mug of coffee all the time

    I think I've got 20 years left to go though. Raising this nest of kids we have has left my retirement planning out there somewhere. Still haven't found it, so until I do, working it is

    "The fact is, squire, the moment a man takes to a pipe, he becomes a philosopher. It's the poor man's friend; it calms the mind, soothes the temper, and makes a man patient under difficulties. It has made more good men, good husbands, kind masters, indulgent fathers, than any other blessed thing on this universal earth."
    -"Sam Slick, the clockmaker" aka T.C.Haliburton

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    I will be 58 next july and i worked for 35 years.I have to work 8 years again to get retired due to the new italian laws.I hate to work now , i'm bored because i need my time to make photography, carving my pipes etc etc.

    turn on,tune in,drop out

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    Yeah, I'm still working for the man, for now. I've got some plans in place, though. lol.

    BTW, I'm not a badass, I'm just socially awkward. – BillyZoom

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    Pentagle,
    There's a whole mess of Egg Heads over here that thinks some one owes them a life.
    I feel for you and think that's why hardships make a better person.
    Regulations probably makes it difficult to sell your Pipes cause everyone there has the same
    difficulties. Photographs! Everyone, I belive, would like their reflections to last.
    I will never forget the hardships of people that past before me and the sacrifices they made
    so i now have the life I have.
    Joel Joseph Stewart

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    I'm 61. retired in 2006.Worked construction and got tired of running all over the country chasing work.I spend most of my time in my shop in the basement restoring,re-finishing pipes. Also make a few pipes, as well as a few tampers.

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    "I'm 61. retired in 2006"

    I whould like to know how it works in Usa How many years one man needs to work before to get the money for the rest of his life.Here we have to work 42-43 years or at finally it needs to be 66-67 years old to get the money from the government.About the same aumount of the last wage salary
    Maurizio

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    I was retired from work in 2006 at the age of 50 because of a back injury that I received in 1995 in an industrial injury, after 3 operations on my back and live on pain killers, so I spend my time relaxing with my pipes and playing Guitar and hobbling about on a walking stick. a good job that my wife is a nurse, she takes good care of me.

    Regards Ken,
    I am not young enough to know everything.

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    37 years old here and should be able to retire in 20 years, but will still have to work at something until I hit 67.

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    I'm 61 like ejames, but expect to remain at the helm of Sandtree Family Therapy for as long as I am able. I am blessed with a job I truly love and with a list of clients I consider friends. It's a good life and I ain't leaving until I must.

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    Retire,only in my dreams.Went in for a consult for major back surgery & they discovered i have a weird bone condition and have to have both hips replaced before they will touch my back.Now thinking both shoulder joints are gone to.Still work 10hr days on concrete but with a cane.But...told the wife I'm blessed,ain't cancer.Smoke & count my blessins

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    hey guys, all of you sound like hard working men, as i consider myself tobe hard working. i respect hard working men and women. really my hope is that when i retire, i have my health (good). looking forward to being papaw. i will be 53 on 2/13. i was born on friday the 13th of feb, 1959, born premature 8 weeks early. that was a big deal 53 years ago. congrats to all of you guys who are retired, i hope that you all nejoy your retirement. i have the upmost respect for all of you.

    take care.

    mike lyvers.

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    I'm trying to find a job- retirement is most likely a myth for me. I remember my Dad telling me about how his father worked for Con Edison his entire life, had the same office, regular raises, Christmas bonuses, etc. I don't think that world exists much anymore.

    "I, on the other hand, am a fully rounded human being with a degree from the university of life, a diploma from the school of hard knocks, and three gold stars from the kindergarten of getting the shit kicked out of me."
    
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    What are these, "regular raises" and "Christmas Bonuses" of which you speak?! And how do I find employment at a business that has such things?

    -Jason

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