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Subject: Re: Friday - 02.28.2025 - Dinner Plans
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On 3/1/2025 12:11 AM, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 03:57:59 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
> (ItsJoanNotJoAnn) wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 2:55:57 +0000, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:31:13 -0500, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is a bit of a trend for people to go into the trades.  You can get
>>>> a degree in Interpretive Dance and get a job at Starbucks, or learn a
>>>> good trade and make 100k a year.
>>>>
>>>> Lets revisit tariffs in 6 months.   I'm not optimistic about them at all.
>>>
>>> Tradies always seem to have a lot of work. We just had an electrician
>>> spend 5 days on our property. Great guy, great work. But why are they
>>> always working until retirement? Why aren't they drinking cocktails in
>>> the Bahamas at age 55?
>>>
>>>
>> I'm guessing the money is too good just to retire.  Besides,
>> they can probably set their own hours and still make out a
>> like bandit.
> 
> I'd rather stop working and start sipping cocktails on a beach if I
> could afford it.
> 

If I was in the trades, probably.  I drove a desk so the physical part 
was not an issue. I did walk through the plant a couple of times a day. 
  At retirement age I cut to 4 days a week, a few years later, 3 days. 
At 71 I was out.

The last few years, we started at 7 so we had coffee and chatted to 
about 7:30, maybe longer.  Wednesday was bagels, Thursday was McD 
breakfast sandwiches, Friday donuts.
At noon, lunch, maybe with a glass of wine.  Done at 4.  In between, our 
chat would be interrupted by having to do something.

I mentioned before, Sue and I still chat every Saturday morning.