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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad was a NYC firefighter in the 70s in the Bronx when “the Bronx was burning”. It’s a hard job to get. You’ll be competing with people who have wanted to do it their whole lives for only a few spots. For some people, it’s a calling. My dad used to work about 1 week on/1 week off. During the week on he would sleep at the firehouse and we wouldn’t see him. During the week off he spent time with the kids. Retired at 20 years with full pension and then became a fire safety director in NYC. Every high rise building in NYC has one and the are usually retired firefighters, very well paid.  This was about the time I was in high school, and it was like my family suddenly had a lot of money. My dads pension was 150,000/ year and he made $130,000 at the fire safety job, and this was in the 90s! I’m very proud of my dad- he worked so hard to provide for our family and did something that actually made a difference in this messed up world. He saved countless people’s lives, carrying babies out of burning apartment buildings, old people out of nursing homes. I don’t know if I would feel the same admiration for my dad if he had worked a white collar job.[/quote]

$150k a year pension in the 90s means your dad was totally scamming the system. That is ridiculous. You shouldn’t admire him. He was a crook stealing money from taxpayers.[/quote]

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