70 Hour Rule, Merry Christmas

[JL 0513]

so let someone else do it, right

YWPOS

u love it as long as someone else is protecting it, is that correct?

So 100% of able people must serve? Or am I the only one here that should have served? I have no I idea where this conversation came from. As if you just came up with something to use against me out of the blue.

Do you volunteer in a soup kitchen every day? Why not?
Because you don't care about poor people?

 

[scratch]

In no way would I presume to tell you what you should do, Scratch. But there is no feeling in the world quite like walking out that door for the last time. Talk about weight being removed from your shoulders.....

And, a dumb little no-pressure part-time retirement job can still get you out of the house a few days a week, and you get to see how relaxed others have lived.

Good luck.

I hit my 30-years of full-time about three years ago and I started thinking about retiring and finding something else to do to keep busy. It's nice to go on vacation for a week or two and do nothing but I go crazy after that. I have always done a lot of volunteer work, I enjoy the type of people I meet from all walks of life that enjoy doing the same things. Currently, I volunteer at a state park that's three miles from my house. I could go to work for the DNR there tomorrow, but the pay is pathetic. I have decided that's its difficult to give up that fat paycheck. I just have to finally reach that point where its not really worth it anymore. I'm getting there.

 

[1989NW]

Went from claiming 0 dependents to claiming 6.

Won't that hurt you really bad on your tax return?

 

[el blanco]

So 100% of able people must serve?

yes

 

[1989NW]

Well get married and start having some babies! My tax return last year was just over $9K. But we have like 12 kids or something like that

 

[Jackburton]

Well get married and start having some babies! My tax return last year was just over $9K. But we have like 12 kids or something like that

And how much did you pay in taxes to get this “return”?

 

[Jackburton]

I hit my 30-years of full-time about three years ago and I started thinking about retiring and finding something else to do to keep busy. It's nice to go on vacation for a week or two and do nothing but I go crazy after that. I have always done a lot of volunteer work, I enjoy the type of people I meet from all walks of life that enjoy doing the same things. Currently, I volunteer at a state park that's three miles from my house. I could go to work for the DNR there tomorrow, but the pay is pathetic. I have decided that's its difficult to give up that fat paycheck. I just have to finally reach that point where its not really worth it anymore. I'm getting there.

Trout hatchery is hiring.

 

[Brownslave688]

And how much did you pay in taxes to get this “return”?

9k too much.

 

[burrheadd]

I hit my 30-years of full-time about three years ago and I started thinking about retiring and finding something else to do to keep busy. It's nice to go on vacation for a week or two and do nothing but I go crazy after that. I have always done a lot of volunteer work, I enjoy the type of people I meet from all walks of life that enjoy doing the same things. Currently, I volunteer at a state park that's three miles from my house. I could go to work for the DNR there tomorrow, but the pay is pathetic. I have decided that's its difficult to give up that fat paycheck. I just have to finally reach that point where its not really worth it anymore. I'm getting there.

I was the same way did 33 years. Then one day I was in an old pos 700 out in the sticks.
Cab full of dust every box had a layer of dust on it
It came to me clear as a bell. You don’t have to do this

Turned my papers in and was gone shortly after

One of the best decisions I have ever made

 

[scratch]

Trout hatchery is hiring.

I never got into fishing much. I volunteer at Sweetwater Creek State Park, come on down and I will show you around.

 

[Jackburton]

9k too much.

Remember, you don’t need to pay 9k to get 9k.

 

[JL 0513]

yes

Do you realize how many millions of people would be in the military at any given time. Most people say our military budget is already excessive (not me necessarily), imagine if you had to pay millions more people? Are you expecting a standing army war with China?

 

[Jackburton]

I never got into fishing much. I volunteer at Sweetwater Creek State Park, come on down and I will show you around.

Isn’t that a WMA Park?

 

[cosmo1]

I was the same way did 33 years. Then one day I was in an old pos 700 out in the sticks.
Cab full of dust every box had a layer of dust on it
It came to me clear as a bell. You don’t have to do this

Turned my papers in and was gone shortly after

One of the best decisions I have ever made

Pretty much the same for me.

After peak 2012, it came time for us to pick vacations. My age was right and my attitude was right.

Picked all six weeks in a row, added my sick and personal days and started the paperwork with the pension fund.

 

[1989NW]

They did not say anything about the 70 hr rule in our PCM yesterday. I highly doubt my center will ever work a Saturday in my lifetime. Unless Christmas Eve falls on a Saturday then we might work it

 

[scratch]

Isn’t that a WMA Park?

Nope, no hunting allowed. It's owned by the State. City of East Point Water Dept owns the lake, Georgia owns the other 1500 acres. I enjoy hiking the trails, they remind me of my days backpacking the Appalachian Trail. The historical part of the New Manchester Mill and the town being destroyed during the Civil War is interesting too. It's the most visited park in the state.

 

[The Driver]

67 hours this week. Wiped but for some reason still awake...

 

[Jackburton]

Nope, no hunting allowed. It's owned by the State. City of East Point Water Dept owns the lake, Georgia owns the other 1500 acres. I enjoy hiking the trails, they remind me of my days backpacking the Appalachian Trail. The historical part of the New Manchester Mill and the town being destroyed during the Civil War is interesting too. It's the most visited park in the state.

Sounds like a nice spot to do some fishing, I’m mainly on Lanier and Allatonna for hybrids and stripers. I float Buford Dam down to Settles Bridge in the summer for trout when the lake gets too hot/busy.

 

[sandwich]

I never got into fishing much. I volunteer at Sweetwater Creek State Park, come on down and I will show you around.

That's awesome. I transferred from socal to Washington. Every weekend I take the family to the state parks and dream of working at them. But as you said the pay is peanuts. Would be a sweet retirement gig though. You should get out while you still have your health.

 

[scratch]

Maybe this would make an appropriate avatar since the company doesn’t believe in our health and safety anymore.