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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1016791, member: 57463&quot;]I never planned to retire and it is a good thing, too.&nbsp; When I was a teenager, I read <i>The Fountainhead</i> by Ayn Rand and the hero, Howard Roark, said that he only has so many working years and would not work at what he did not love.&nbsp; Like him at the stone quarry, I, too, have had jobs and employment different than my passions.&nbsp; But, also from Ayn Rand, in <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>, discussing their new blue collar careers, one of the industrialists says that there are no lousy jobs, just lousy men who won&#039;t do them to the best of their ability.&nbsp; I always put 100% into everything, but, overall, for the last 35 years, I have been mostly a writer -- technical writer; freelance; numismatics; whatever.&nbsp; I have also worked as a security guard and therefore recently went back to school and completed associate&#039;s, bachelor&#039;s, and master&#039;s degrees in criminal justice and social science.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Back in 1981, when I was a cab driver, I had a regular fare at a GM Fisher Body plant.&nbsp; He died soon after retiring.&nbsp; Ten years later, working as a robotics instructor at Ford plants, I saw retired guys come in the back loading dock to hang out for a few hours.&nbsp; It probably kept them alive.</p><p><br /></p><p>My mother was a secretary.&nbsp; When she could no longer be an executive secretary, she worked as a temp.&nbsp; She was pleasantly surprised by an offer from some connections to work at city hall and eventually she died doing that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In another topic thread about the New Hard Times, I mentioned selling my coin books at coin shows.&nbsp; To me -- once more from Ayn Rand -- the material objects have no magic powers of attraction.&nbsp; I can always earn more later.... hopefully, not too much later...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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