Good news for pilots - retirement age

Morgans wrote:

"Margy Natalie" wrote

TSP this year is $15,500. Since I just started with the govt. I get
0% from them. After a year I think I might get 3%. I'm also in the
govt. pension which according to most is worth almost nothing.

So, how are things shaking out with your new position? Still enjoying
going to work, I would imagine. :-)
I have to stop coming up with great ideas as I'm getting way too much
work!! I have a bunch of things in the planning stages that are above
and beyond my "job", but that's what makes things interesting. The
docents still like me so I guess I'm doing my job.

Margy

"Margy Natalie" wrote

Better than I thought, but I'm not staying that long.

What do you have in mind for your next career? Back to teaching?

I got back into teaching, relatively late, at 35. I'll have to go to 63, to
get the full NC state pension.

I don't know what will go first; my back causing disability eligibility, or
teacher burnout. I doubt I'll make it all the way, though. :-(

Friday, my students were practicing the art of coping baseboards. For those
that don't know, it involves using a hand held coping saw, to get the proper
profile to make two pieces of baseboard fit correctly in a corner. There
were students all over the shop, sitting at tables and work benches,
practicing their skill/art.

One of my future jail residents decided that it would be funny to cut a 3" X
3" table leg off, all but about 1/2" in the middle of the leg. "Funny
stuff" like that chaps my *ss, really bad. It sure does take the joy out of
trying to teach.

Another student, not to be out-done, proceeded to cut off most of a steel
chair leg, before he got caught.

Many of our youth have no respect for anyone else's property, and destroy
things, just because they can. I don't understand the motivation behind
these acts. They don't deserve the right to stay in public education. I'm
sure of that.

Retirement looks better, every day.
--
Jim in NC

"Margy Natalie" wrote

I have to stop coming up with great ideas as I'm getting way too much
work!! I have a bunch of things in the planning stages that are above and
beyond my "job", but that's what makes things interesting. The docents
still like me so I guess I'm doing my job.

Chuckle

And more, no doubt.

Knowing a little of your personality, you will _always_ be trying to do more
than what is required. It is that work ethic that makes our country great.
We need more people with work ethics like you! :-)
--
Jim in NC

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:21:30 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

I got back into teaching, relatively late, at 35. I'll have to go to 63, to
get the full NC state pension.

I don't know what will go first; my back causing disability eligibility, or
teacher burnout. I doubt I'll make it all the way, though. :-(

Swap the back for a knee, and my wife is on a parallel track.

She's a 2nd grade teacher in a NCLB "Failing" school and is definitely
burning out.

Morgans wrote:

"Margy Natalie" wrote

Better than I thought, but I'm not staying that long.


What do you have in mind for your next career? Back to teaching?

Full time gardening, punctuated with flying, drinking wine, and going
out on the boat :-). We've got 2 acres on a 3,000' grass field in NC
that is calling my name. As soon as we can quit the rat race we are
outta here!

Seriously, If I was going to put in 25 with the government I'd be in my
70's before I got out.

Margy

Morgans wrote:

"Margy Natalie" wrote

I have to stop coming up with great ideas as I'm getting way too much
work!! I have a bunch of things in the planning stages that are above
and beyond my "job", but that's what makes things interesting. The
docents still like me so I guess I'm doing my job.


Chuckle

And more, no doubt.

Knowing a little of your personality, you will _always_ be trying to do
more than what is required. It is that work ethic that makes our
country great. We need more people with work ethics like you! :-)

Yeah, but getting anything done requires so much pounding your head
against a brick wall. No wonder people give up and do "just what's
required".

Margy

"B A R R Y" wrote

Swap the back for a knee, and my wife is on a parallel track.

She's a 2nd grade teacher in a NCLB "Failing" school and is definitely
burning out.

I'm in a good school, but it seems as though teaching construction, I get
the bottom of the barrel. Imagine that. Construction workers that don't
want to work.

The sad part is, that the 20% hold back the rest of the good ones, that want
to learn.

Until school is a privilege, instead of a requirement, it will stay the
same.

Ones that do not want to be in school should be allowed to leave. In a
couple years, after seeing the outside without a skill, they can go back and
get some training, when they want to be there.
--
Jim in NC

"Margy Natalie" wrote

Full time gardening, punctuated with flying, drinking wine, and going
out on the boat :-). We've got 2 acres on a 3,000' grass field in NC
that is calling my name. As soon as we can quit the rat race we are
outta here!

Sounds great. NC is God's Country! ;-)
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:

"Margy Natalie" wrote

Full time gardening, punctuated with flying, drinking wine, and going
out on the boat :-). We've got 2 acres on a 3,000' grass field in NC
that is calling my name. As soon as we can quit the rat race we are
outta here!


Sounds great. NC is God's Country! ;-)
It sure is! We have some friends farther east (Apex) who gave us 3
books for the holidays. Barbeque of NC, Winerys of NC and Gardening in
NC. We are working our way through the Barbeque places an winerys. It
makes for fun weekends!

Margy