Baby boomer retirement goals...

Enough with the baby boomer baloney, the stupid Vietnam War, and the 60's music already. They're all like cupcakes and Peyton Manning: long gone, over hyped, and uninteresting.

This is a pessimistic viewpoint, but you can be sure that the changes to your retirement benefit package are NOT designed to improve things for the workers. Why else would they make these changes? To pay out more? Yeah, right. Run don't walk and fill out your papers!

Cupcakes are gone? Overhyped? I just ate one before I clicked on this thread. Best desert ever!

Would be no problem at all, lock right around the falls . Depending on which specific route taken for the loop, one will be passing through 150+ locks on the trip.

J

We were in Vegas this past NYE & had a great time, & will probably do it again.

Enjoy your retirement & do what you want to do.

My goals, when I retire in approximately 16 months, are:

1) Paint practically every wall in my house (needs it!)
2) SELL my house (been there too long)
3) Get the heck out of Dodge for most of the harsh winters
while I am still young (I live in MN - BRRRR - especially
this year!!)

Getting anxious! It'll be 36.5 years working in the same State
University setting when I retire! I'm getting out at 60 - met the "Rule
of 90" some time ago! I've been very lucky to work at a job I ENJOYED
all those years, and luckier yet to be collecting a pension.

I'll turn 65 next month. I've tenatively set my retirement with the company in April. The closer I get to April, the less sure I am about retirement. It's a big decison. I have a great job with a good company. I still enjoy coming to work. I have worked since a teenager and have never been without a job for any lenght of time, I'm not sure what it's going to be like, not too have someplace to go every day.

I agree Cjen, it is a huge decision for sure. You must have a list of things you would like to do, this is your opportunity to do those things while you are still young.

albeadle33 - sorry you don't like hearing about baby boomers, must be hell for you since we are EVERYWHERE!

Luck had nothing to do with it. People that stay with a job they don't enjoy are most likely staying because they don't want to put out the effort it takes to change jobs or they made a horrible decision and for whatever reason now they are stuck. You worked hard and hung in there. You made wise decisions and must have been a good worker to hold onto your job all of those years. You EARNED that pension and don't ever think otherwise. You made a wise decision many years ago and now it is coming to fruition.

Luck had nothing to do with it.

Thank you, Tutontow! I very much appreciate those sentiments! I guess I DO deserve that pension - that was a lot of days/years of an alarm clark going off at 6 AM; and a lot of deadlines/priorities to deal with at work. That alarm will be going off more like 7:30 or 8 AM soon!! I can't wait!!