I look forward to being named “Editor Emeritus” when I walk away from my job. Of course Rupert Murdoch once defined the term this way: “It’s Latin: E means you’re out, and MERITUS means you deserve it!”
My husband, at 55, was suffering from terrible burn out at work. He ran a private, not for profit children’s mental health agency/school. He had to deal with state ed and state mental health. If one said that he had to do “X”, the other would then come in ask why he was doing same and tell him that “X” was not allowed. He would come home at night and sit at the kitchen table with his arms out in front of him on the table and stare at the TV not seeing it.
Being an accountant I ran the numbers several different ways. I am self-employed and figured that with our savings, what I was making, building up our side handmade crafts business and the roll over of his pension into an IRA for the future we would get by. (We were living on half of his net salary and saving the rest since we paid off our mortgage.)
He quit. (6 months leave of absence first, which I hoped would be enough, but it was not.) When anyone mentioned him retiring he would say that he had not retired, he had just changed careers from a lucrative job as director of a mental health center to starving artist. I would add “with a patroness”.
Yes, by his quitting his job, we caused the 2008 financial meltdown – no interest income, and all but one of my monthly business clients went out of business. But, we do get by.
Auntie Socialist over 5 years ago
Careful Liv! You roll those eyes any further and you’ll be looking backwards
jackianne1020 over 5 years ago
Only someone who was retired could have the time to come up with that joke.
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 5 years ago
I am.
sfreader1 over 5 years ago
Thing is, if you are retired, you can nap anytime you feel like it.
azhoosier41 over 5 years ago
I must be retired.I was tired to start with.
banjinshiju over 5 years ago
He must be re-tired. Look at his waist.
cuzinron47 over 5 years ago
I think she’s going with re-tarded.
cuzinron47 over 5 years ago
He has the nerves to say to her while she’s working.
DM2860 over 5 years ago
He is not re-tired, he has re-treaded.
car2ner over 5 years ago
not having a long commute and a OMG a.m. alarm must be refreshing
DDrazen over 5 years ago
I look forward to being named “Editor Emeritus” when I walk away from my job. Of course Rupert Murdoch once defined the term this way: “It’s Latin: E means you’re out, and MERITUS means you deserve it!”
mafastore over 5 years ago
My husband, at 55, was suffering from terrible burn out at work. He ran a private, not for profit children’s mental health agency/school. He had to deal with state ed and state mental health. If one said that he had to do “X”, the other would then come in ask why he was doing same and tell him that “X” was not allowed. He would come home at night and sit at the kitchen table with his arms out in front of him on the table and stare at the TV not seeing it.
Being an accountant I ran the numbers several different ways. I am self-employed and figured that with our savings, what I was making, building up our side handmade crafts business and the roll over of his pension into an IRA for the future we would get by. (We were living on half of his net salary and saving the rest since we paid off our mortgage.)
He quit. (6 months leave of absence first, which I hoped would be enough, but it was not.) When anyone mentioned him retiring he would say that he had not retired, he had just changed careers from a lucrative job as director of a mental health center to starving artist. I would add “with a patroness”.
Yes, by his quitting his job, we caused the 2008 financial meltdown – no interest income, and all but one of my monthly business clients went out of business. But, we do get by.