Haha, know the feeling, although the few clients I'm still working with are making enough work for 5 times as many it feels like...SoulBiter wrote:..my actual work has ground to a slow crawl. But dont tell my boss that...
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After some inmate won a lawsuit getting all inmatesSorus wrote:That sucks. How's your PPE situation?
Here we are two years later and the work has definitely picked back up. In the meantime I have had to start over with new teams (twice since then) and train them for what we do. I am hoping this is the last time. Still working from home. My wife and I have May 2023 targeted for retirement (right after bonus payout).Avatar wrote:Haha, know the feeling, although the few clients I'm still working with are making enough work for 5 times as many it feels like...SoulBiter wrote:..my actual work has ground to a slow crawl. But dont tell my boss that...
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Agreed Peter! For us we have been planing for this for a long time. So we have no debt except the house which will be paid off by the end of this year. So we would enter retirement zero debt. Funny enough, when we went debt free after the 2009/2010 crash, we found that although we had the discretionary income to buy just about anything, we lost the urge to do so. I would suggest to anyone out there, that being debt free is freeing on so many levels. Once you free your income from being taken by payments, you find that you can start generating wealth, rather than making financial institutions more wealthy.peter wrote:
My advice to anyone considering retirement is to think very carefully as to whether this is a good time to quit work (if your health and options allow you to do otherwise). Even in the 'good times' I've known many people who have done so confident that they are well placed, only to see inflation and other factors eroding their income to the point where they, after only a few years, find themselves scratching around trying to make ends meet. This is fine if you are prepared to slash your living standards, quit having the options that you have enjoyed while working (like going on holiday, buying new stuff when you want to etc) - but it isn't what most people have in mind when they picture the sunlit uplands of retirement. But this is very often the reality after a surprisingly short time.
That is a great gig for being able to WFH if that is what you prefer. I know a number of people in IT (various parts of IT) that have transitioned to a different locale they always wanted to live in, and work from there now.inkinen wrote:Seasoned software developer working as a contractor. Been doing remote work for two years but lately started visiting office affair.
My dreamjob before going to uni was to work in a bookstore.. we had a wonderful store in the suburb I grew up in.
That sounds like a good gig. I'm envious of anybody who has a second language under their belt. I have a desire to begin learning Cornish (of which there are only about 1000 speakers left in the world). Problem is I'm mid-sixties and the old grey cells are exactly that - old! New neural pathways are not formed with the same speed and agility at this age, so it could be an ask too far.Spiral Jacobs wrote:Freelance translator working from home
LOL, maybe vague recollections are surfacing. I probably just blocked it out.Phantasm wrote:I've had discussions with sgt null about it beforeAvatar wrote:You're a screw? Damn, I don't know if I ever knew that...