When I was 55 I couldn’t imagine retiring. When I was 60 I started making plans for early retirement. I always covered for others and only used vacation days when I was forced to. My last months I started using up the time that wouldn’t be paid I left. And amazingly everything managed to get done without me. And I discovered there was a world outside of work. Haven’t left my little town in years and there are still things right here free and cheap and fun.
I am not gonna take death lying down! I am gonna shuffle off my mortal coil and wrap it around the reapers neck and throw him to the river and beat him with the Styx! Had too much coffee methinks……
I actually worked with a woman who died at her Desk.
She had Terminal Cancer and had not told Anyone except the ones who handled her Health Insurance claims. And They could be Fired or even Jailed if they leaked it.
One of the people she worked with thought she’d fallen asleep and tried to wake her up.
My mother was still working when she was 70. Then the cancer and after going through the agony she found there was more cancer an just refused any more help and died in hospice in just 2 months. Auntie if you can work and drop dead at lunch time it will be swift.
Baba27 about 5 years ago
And turn up as a ghost afterwards to check if they still need you.
blunebottle about 5 years ago
Freedom 85, Aunty. Freedom 85.
Jefano Premium Member about 5 years ago
Unfortunately a lot of jobs take away your ability to work long before they take away your life.
Troglodyte about 5 years ago
There isn’t a ghost of a chance that you would ever do that, Aunty!
Marvin Premium Member about 5 years ago
You’ll probably be late for it.
DanFlak about 5 years ago
I don’t fish and I don’t golf so there is no sense to me retiring.
The truth is I am not sure I know how to retire.
1953Baby about 5 years ago
Some people just can’t let go. . .
Retliblady Premium Member about 5 years ago
When I was 55 I couldn’t imagine retiring. When I was 60 I started making plans for early retirement. I always covered for others and only used vacation days when I was forced to. My last months I started using up the time that wouldn’t be paid I left. And amazingly everything managed to get done without me. And I discovered there was a world outside of work. Haven’t left my little town in years and there are still things right here free and cheap and fun.
WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago
Hang in there for just a few minutes longer and you can eat some of the food they prepared for the wake…
Storm F-1/4 about 5 years ago
I am not gonna take death lying down! I am gonna shuffle off my mortal coil and wrap it around the reapers neck and throw him to the river and beat him with the Styx! Had too much coffee methinks……
rAtkinson about 5 years ago
I heard about a guy that died in his cubicle about a week before they figured out he had passed.
cuzinron47 about 5 years ago
Reading gocomics is my retirement activity.
Rista about 5 years ago
I did not wish to retire, they “retired” me at 64. Ageism is alive, well and thriving in the ol’ USA.
fix-n-fly about 5 years ago
I am right there with you on that one Aunty…
bakana about 5 years ago
I actually worked with a woman who died at her Desk.
She had Terminal Cancer and had not told Anyone except the ones who handled her Health Insurance claims. And They could be Fired or even Jailed if they leaked it.
One of the people she worked with thought she’d fallen asleep and tried to wake her up.
Spooky D Cat about 5 years ago
Perhaps you’ve heard this one before: “the cemeteries are full of indispensable men (and women).”
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
My mother was still working when she was 70. Then the cancer and after going through the agony she found there was more cancer an just refused any more help and died in hospice in just 2 months. Auntie if you can work and drop dead at lunch time it will be swift.