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Anonymous wrote:She probably accepted a retirement buy-out from the old job and doesn't want to admit that it was really more like a termination.

She worked 35 years. That is retired.

So if she switched jobs after 35 years, she is retired? But if she worked longer at her old job, she is not retired??

Logical, not

Anonymous wrote:She probably accepted a retirement buy-out from the old job and doesn't want to admit that it was really more like a termination.

That sounds like a stretch. I vote for embarrassment that she needs to earn money, especially if she is surrounded by people who have very comfortable retirement finances.

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Anonymous wrote:If she worked at one job 35 years, she is retired. She probably doesn't have enough money and needs to still keep working.

how is she retired if she works full time?

She worked 35 years/that was retirement at that company.

My spouse is retired military. He got in at 18 and retired at 38. He gets retirement benefits but the retirement pay is less than $1K a month (minus health insurance and taxes) so its not enough to actually retire on.

He is retired military but not actually retired if he works.

He is retired. But, he works another job. You are retired if you get full benefits. He retired from one job, took another.

Makes no sense. At all.
The only reason you say he is retired is related to benefits??
You are nuts.

Anonymous wrote:She probably accepted a retirement buy-out from the old job and doesn't want to admit that it was really more like a termination.

She worked 35 years. That is retired.

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Anonymous wrote:My H retired and works and says he is retired. If people probe he says yea I have a retirement job to keep me out of trouble. But he is retired.

He has a job? Then honey, he is not retired. I would also think he is a liar if it came out only after probing.

He is retired and gets $8000/mth after tax pension plus subsidized healthcare.

He will always Piddle around with some little job.

Enlisted/20 years get around $1K a month. $8K would be fantastic. Only high level officers get that much. You clearly don't get the difference from enlisted and officers and 20 vs. 30 years. You get a pension off your salary which doesn't include the housing and other allowances so its very low.

He doesn't have a little job. He has a real job that he does very well with. It wasn't worth staying in the military longer.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she worked at one job 35 years, she is retired. She probably doesn't have enough money and needs to still keep working.

how is she retired if she works full time?

She worked 35 years/that was retirement at that company.

My spouse is retired military. He got in at 18 and retired at 38. He gets retirement benefits but the retirement pay is less than $1K a month (minus health insurance and taxes) so its not enough to actually retire on.

He is retired military but not actually retired if he works.

He is retired. But, he works another job. You are retired if you get full benefits. He retired from one job, took another.

Anonymous wrote:If she worked at one job 35 years, she is retired. She probably doesn't have enough money and needs to still keep working.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My H retired and works and says he is retired. If people probe he says yea I have a retirement job to keep me out of trouble. But he is retired.

He has a job? Then honey, he is not retired. I would also think he is a liar if it came out only after probing.

He is retired and gets $8000/mth after tax pension plus subsidized healthcare.

He will always Piddle around with some little job.

He works

She probably accepted a retirement buy-out from the old job and doesn't want to admit that it was really more like a termination.

Anonymous wrote:If she worked at one job 35 years, she is retired. She probably doesn't have enough money and needs to still keep working.

This. A beloved colleague retired long pre-Covid, but had to return in subbing almost FT because her Medicare Part B and prescriptions were insane. During Covid, she stopped again and moved to another state with her brother and SIL. She was so embarrassed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My H retired and works and says he is retired. If people probe he says yea I have a retirement job to keep me out of trouble. But he is retired.

He has a job? Then honey, he is not retired. I would also think he is a liar if it came out only after probing.

He is retired and gets $8000/mth after tax pension plus subsidized healthcare.

He will always Piddle around with some little job.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she worked at one job 35 years, she is retired. She probably doesn't have enough money and needs to still keep working.

how is she retired if she works full time?

She worked 35 years/that was retirement at that company.

My spouse is retired military. He got in at 18 and retired at 38. He gets retirement benefits but the retirement pay is less than $1K a month (minus health insurance and taxes) so its not enough to actually retire on.

He is retired military but not actually retired if he works.

Anonymous wrote:My H retired and works and says he is retired. If people probe he says yea I have a retirement job to keep me out of trouble. But he is retired.

He has a job? Then honey, he is not retired. I would also think he is a liar if it came out only after probing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she worked at one job 35 years, she is retired. She probably doesn't have enough money and needs to still keep working.

how is she retired if she works full time?

She worked 35 years/that was retirement at that company.

My spouse is retired military. He got in at 18 and retired at 38. He gets retirement benefits but the retirement pay is less than $1K a month (minus health insurance and taxes) so its not enough to actually retire on.