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Life After Retirement: One Federal Retiree's Perspective
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My Observations
DOD
Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:13 PM
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All too often, I meet retirees of all kinds who retire for travel, golf, family, hobbies, etc. Then after a year or two, they are working a job at much lower pay and with a difficult schedule that interfers with their original reason to retire. I say work an extra couple of years, or longer. That way, you go back to work out of choice and not need!!
Life after retirement
USAF Civ.
Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:59 PM
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My experience bears out everything he says. The majority of persons have not seena financial planner, don't have a very good idea of income or expenses in retirement. I have been retired 13 years now, and have kept busy with volunteer work.
I passed up an early out because at the time I didn't know where I was headed.
Boeing Study
DoD
Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:45 PM
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I forgot one of the most important reasons I went out the door as soon as I could after my 55th birthday. At my workplace in the Navy we called it the "Boeing Study", but I think there were several studies that supported the same result. In the study they tracked employees (mostly professionals I believe) after retirement until their deaths. At death, they became a "point" on a graph that shoed how long they had lived after retirement on one axis and the age they retired on the other axes. The data showed an amazingly linear relationship... a straight line with a slope of 2:1.
The result: For every year that you work past the age of 55, you take TWO YEARS off your life expectancy.
There can be many interpretations of this data and I've heard many of them. But as I approached 55, I wasn't going to argue with facts.
Take it for what it's worth...
Still Glad He Got Out At 55
Re: Boeing Study
USDA
Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:35 PM
Waiting for VERA
DoD
Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:33 AM
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I am anxiously awaiting a rumored VERA to come to our agency. Our business line has been in a slow decline for years - we've seen most of the IT work we used to pride ourselves on being taken over by outside contractors - they run the show, not us. If we were still getting work, I wouldn't mind staying. But it's not fun anymore - I have had to nag my supervisors/divison chiefs to get work assignments for the last few years, and even then there have been long dry stretches of trying to look busy. My husband is older and retired from DoD, and he is wants me to leave too but I want to get early retirement before I go. He has found fulfillment in volunteer work and that's what I intend to do too. When I started my career 23 years ago I loved it and never dreamed I would be ending it with such a mix of sadness and cynicism. I am proud of being a Federal worker, but it's just not the same place it used to be. I didn't lose my job to outsourcing but my morale sure went away.
Anticipating
Interior
Wed May 2, 2007 12:18 PM
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I agree with the commentor "Waiting for VERA". My agency seems to be in a sort of death spiral which I don't think it will pull out of. The fun has long since departed. I'd like to stay longer, but the working conditions have become intolerable. I have my 30+ in, so I'll be gone by the end of the year.
retirement
US ARMY
Sat Sep 1, 2007 2:00 PM
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There are many things to do after you retire. Go on any web search on voluntarism and you will find a long list, especially in the social service area. The federal government could also find use for volunteers especially in such areas as EEO counselors, early childhood, counseling, medical support and MWR activities, just to mention a few. The federal government is far behind the power curve in the recruitment of volunteers, I suppose because it may pose a threat to appropriatedd and non-appropriated salaried positions
No reason to be bored after retirement
DON
Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:22 AM
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There is no reason to be bored after retirement. You are only bored if you choose to be. There's volunteer work, hobbies, part-time jobs, etc. If a person is that unimaginative and unmotivated, they probably wouldn't make a good employee anyway and should retire.