[Leica] RE: OT: How many here are retired? How many are happier now (etc)?

[hankpix at yahoo.com (Hank Kellner)]

I became self-unemployed in 1990, but with a twist. A divorce folllowed 
eight years later, and now I'm free as a bird...and happy, too.
     I indulge my passion for camera goodies by watching my pennies and 
occasionally selling a piece of equipment when I find I have more stuff  
than I need.
     The only negative thing about retirement is that one finds oneself 
unable to leap tall buildings with a single bound, as was possible during 
one's younger days.
  Hank Kellner (71)

Oliver Bryk <oliverbryk@comcast.net> wrote:
  Since I do not receive a pension from any previous employment I do not
consider myself "retired"; I am just not being paid anymore. I was
self-employed for many years; now I am self-unemployed.
Because of the then prevailing rules regarding Social Security I did not
give up working for pay until I reached age 70. About a week later I said to
my wife, "I wish I could have quit ten years ago." She agreed. Almost all of
the wives among our friends have said that their husbands became human
beings only after they quit working.
I am most certainly happier now. 
Oliver (78)



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