Not really. I mean I volunteer at the school where I worked, so I still count them as my coworkers.. But since I don't get paid, I guess technically they aren't. But what would you call them?
You're on your way brother. The children being grown when you get to the decade that you retire is the big game changer I think. I love my kids, and I actually thought about having more a few years ago, but financially just wasn't something I could wing.
Plus I worked in an elementary school for my last few days of work, so they sorta all became my kids. And I still volunteer there, so it's worked out for me.
Now, if my kids would have kids so I could at least have grandbabies, then hey! All the better! lol
Agreed. I basically took early retirement--I'm 55.
My pension is small since I bailed early, but I have zero debt, and very few bills, so I get by just fine. My kids are grown. My house and cars are paid off. Property taxes here are very low.
Sure, I won't be traveling the world, but the park next to my house is beautiful, and I can see the mountains from my front porch. All is good.
Good luck to ya, mate!
Yep! Wait until you have kids that are older than your co-workers.
Source: My kids are older than many of my co-workers. It sucks.
The only way to fight it is to stay fit as fuck. Oh and retire early like I did. Takes some of the pain out of getting older!
This was an awesome article!
Well put. And I agree!
You should be blocking politics and news subs o Lemmy.world not the other way around lol
Sooooo much this! The poltics subs on Lemmy are toxic crybaby shitholes.
I never bowed down to them, or the Duopoly, or Harris. No matter how much they cried. And it feels fucking AWESOME to have been right!
If it's .world, of course they banned you. They ban anyone who doesn't bow down the duopoly. Laugh about it and move on, friend. They are toxic in the c/politics sub over there, these days.
I got banned for "trolling" and "sealioning" because I posted news articles that noted that some polls (from Newsweek and Reuters!) were saying Trump was gaining on Harris. And then not backing down, while also saying I wasn't voting for Harris.
I stand by everything I said. And the election proved I was 100 percent right.
And that community is even more toxic that before. The modlog there is a fucking shitshow right now. I read it for laughs. :)
There were posters there saying that I was gonna get permabanned from the entirety of Lemmy (and they emailed a lot of admins asking them to ban me!)... all because I voted third party and refused to vote for Harris. LMAO
Yet here I am. The beauty of the fediverse is if they try to silence you on one instance, just jump to another.
The .world community is a joke. All the other intances know how ban-happy they are. Just move on.