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Getting past 50-60 years old you really have to start enjoying life and to things you always wanted to do otherwise you will miss out. For the last 3 years I've been doing things I really enjoy like road trips to villages on the week end and going towards goals that for most people it is not sane and throwing money away. You only have one chance to live like you want.
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If your kids don't really deserve it then why give it all to them? I see so many people who get money from the succession and blow it away, on $10 000 worth of woman's make up, clothes that go straight to salvation army never worn, a bunch of useless stuff or smoke weed and sniff coke. It would piss me off, If I'd give money to unreliable children it would be on some condition like once they open a successful biz after 5-10 years they get the money. By then if they are successful they are more likely to appreciate the value and use it wisely. Otherwise I would not give much and give it to someone unrelated or others who merit it.
Anyway the average life expectancy for a plumber is 67 years old so it's time to enjoy life NOW.
Take my mother's husband (70-74) he was getting a little slow and one day bam he started to say his butt cheeks weren't connected and suddenly he was incapable of taking care of himself. From then on he was mentally game over. The body degraded right after, in a matter of months they had to sell his mega garage on another lot where he spent all his days there, they sold the house, all the 4wheelers, boat, the car and truck. Now he spends a whole lot of time at the hospital half in and out of lucidity, can't climb stairs or get up from the ground.
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Exactly in hell all they accept is FTX Bitcoin.
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I used to get the union's magazine for years and years and they posted all the deceased plumbers, I tallied them for many months did the math and that's the average. We used to breathe a lot of nasty solder fumes(still do), lead pipe dope, silica etc. Just by walking the hallway of a new concrete building under construction did you ever see the kicked up silica dust in the sun light?
The plumber who got me in the trade died of lung cancer and died a year after retiring (67), he worked his last years for an A-hole company for 10-15 years and they never reached out on his death bed. He worked night and weekend for them. I worked for that company not very long, the first day they told me I was late when I got there 15 minutes before 7, I asked will I get paid to pack the truck from 6:30 to 7, they said no, time starts at 7. Why the F would I work for free?? They also said I had to put materials in my personal truck and supply my own power tools to go on job sites(against convention rules). The next day I showed up 2 minutes before 7 and came in on a bicycle, that was my last day.
Several years later all the employee kids there got caught by the CRA with shenanigan payroll, these kids supplying tools, trailers, fuel, etc. and deducting these from their taxes but you cannot do that unless you are a contractor. The company would take all their receipts and deduct it on the company!! All my life people were mocking me when I standing up for myself...All the kids ended up with 25-30K+ in fines and had to pay back all those deductions to the CRA.
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I'm sure of all the years you've been working you've amassed a substantial amount of money unless you spend it as you go, so the question is do you need more? Do you like working so much and adding zeroes to the bank account it outweighs the joy of doing fun things? If you don't need more money why don't you make plans of the things you wanted to do all your life? You like hiking, why don't you get an RV, travel the country, visit trails, do village sight seeing, go see the grand canyon, go eat out at restaurants, visit boutiques with the wife?
I remember a very rich a multi millionaire developer who was so cheap he died at 80+ years old on the bulldozer working full time. I guess his joy was just seeing zeroes in the bank account, for me I just don't understand.
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tango, you realize that visiting boutiques with the wife is a special kind of hell that befalls a lot of men
and I personally would rather be digging a ditch than going nuts watching them shop ,
I am one of them unlucky SOB's! I can't find the pictures I took this summer but I was waiting outside a mall store while she was shopping for makeup and I snapped 4 other guys leaning on the rail waiting for their women. I won't go into details but when we do weekend road trips I suffer a whole lot and it causes a lot of friction, she can't decide between 2 pairs of earrings for over an hour! Then she decides not to buy either one and off to the next boutique! HELP!!!
I would not go work at HD at minimum wage while retired, I'll keep my licence active and do easy jobs.
The RV looks in good shape, too bad the wife would not want to be seen in it, mine doesn't like to be seen in my sports car, "too flashy". I guess my next car she'll never get in it.
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It's my 4th year ranked in the Top 3, you cannot buy your way in and your name remains online. Free.
Unlike another where I was chosen #1 but the catch is you have to pay to keep the title for 1 year and get stickers. I said no to that one, it's a hefty amount. if you don't accept they offer it to the second highest plumber and so on.
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Unlike another where I was chosen #1 but the catch is you have to pay to keep the title for 1 year and get stickers. I said no to that one, it's a hefty amount. if you don't accept they offer it to the second highest plumber and so on.
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There I found it, this is me waiting around every weekend just like those poor bastards. I eventually found a bench...
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I was in the store waiting just like these guys, so I took a picture of them.
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