Reply #15: I certainly felt like I was doing the altruistic thing

[Blue_In_AK]

by retiring last year and taking early SS. Besides, it's just so much more fun to sit around and bitch on DU all day. :) Retirement rocks.


ed. I should add that I am in the very enviable position of now being married to a man who retired with a fully-funded pension from the Marine Engineers Benefit Association when he was 47 (talk about LUCKY), and who also now gets social security. So unions rock, too.