Comments on: Screwed http://susiemadrak.com/2006/12/28/11/42/screwed-2/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:26:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: garampani http://susiemadrak.com/2006/12/28/11/42/screwed-2/#comment-119114 garampani Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:14:27 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2006/12/28/11/42/screwed-2/#comment-119114 "The days they go slower the years they fly by Til you're too old to work and you're too young to die. ............. Who can you turn to? How will you get by? When you're too old to work and you're too young to die." Scraps of a union song . I've heard it a couple of times it always struck me to the heart. “The days they go slower the years they fly by
Til you’re too old to work and you’re too young to die.
………….
Who can you turn to? How will you get by?
When you’re too old to work and you’re too young to die.”

Scraps of a union song . I’ve heard it a couple of times
it always struck me to the heart.

]]> By: Melanie http://susiemadrak.com/2006/12/28/11/42/screwed-2/#comment-119049 Melanie Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:32:35 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2006/12/28/11/42/screwed-2/#comment-119049 Don't forget to add in the cost of health insurance. Don’t forget to add in the cost of health insurance.

]]> By: somegirl http://susiemadrak.com/2006/12/28/11/42/screwed-2/#comment-119046 somegirl Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:05:18 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2006/12/28/11/42/screwed-2/#comment-119046 my 57 year old friend was told recently by a financial planner that she would have to save her entire income for 50 years in order to retire comfortably. we just laughed. my 57 year old friend was told recently by a financial planner that she would have to save her entire income for 50 years in order to retire comfortably.
we just laughed.

]]> By: Thomas Ware http://susiemadrak.com/2006/12/28/11/42/screwed-2/#comment-118998 Thomas Ware Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:40:32 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2006/12/28/11/42/screwed-2/#comment-118998 While my sons are willing, their wives are not happy with the prospect of taking in a midfifty something with a familia history of parkinsons, type 2 diabeties and thirty-two years of PTSS. Note to those who would "semi-retire" ie. quit the extremely stressfull 45K postition in academia to start your own computer repair business: Never, NEVER, AR work in Nov or Dec - cash on the barrelhead only. While my sons are willing, their wives are not happy with the prospect of taking in a midfifty something with a familia history of parkinsons, type 2 diabeties and thirty-two years of PTSS.

Note to those who would “semi-retire” ie. quit the extremely stressfull 45K postition in academia to start your own computer repair business: Never, NEVER, AR work in Nov or Dec - cash on the barrelhead only.

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