Ramble
The more I think about retirement, the less stress I feel. Our combined SS would exceed my modest salary and, with no surprise expenses, enable my wife and I to maintain our equally modest lifestyle. I wish we were mortgage-free but hard decisions had to be made and refinance was the best option at the time.
It’s not that my job is overly stressful anyway. My work in the library is multifaceted but doable. The worst part is supervising my staff. The best is the solitary computer work. I spent most of this morning working the Circ desk alone while updating an older Dell: added an SSD, re-imaged via the ImageAssist program, and brought Windows up to the latest version (of 10, at least; it can’t run 11). I’ve tweaked four pc’s this week in anticipation of a major software switchover at the state level.
But it’s only books, as my former supervisor would say. I try to stay easy going, Pollyanna me, so patron hassles and staff complaints can roll away. Thinking of leaving this behind isn’t too upsetting, either. I need to take advantage of my job provided health care and get fixed up before going, though (I dread the nail gun…).
SS has been applied for as of last week. Preliminary estimates are favorable. Retirement ‘savings’ are near negligible but might provide a buffer from catastrophe. Maybe by December.
Two for fun-
Faunus (Marsyas, actually, but my vision of Faunus nonetheless).
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It’s not that my job is overly stressful anyway. My work in the library is multifaceted but doable. The worst part is supervising my staff. The best is the solitary computer work. I spent most of this morning working the Circ desk alone while updating an older Dell: added an SSD, re-imaged via the ImageAssist program, and brought Windows up to the latest version (of 10, at least; it can’t run 11). I’ve tweaked four pc’s this week in anticipation of a major software switchover at the state level.
But it’s only books, as my former supervisor would say. I try to stay easy going, Pollyanna me, so patron hassles and staff complaints can roll away. Thinking of leaving this behind isn’t too upsetting, either. I need to take advantage of my job provided health care and get fixed up before going, though (I dread the nail gun…).
SS has been applied for as of last week. Preliminary estimates are favorable. Retirement ‘savings’ are near negligible but might provide a buffer from catastrophe. Maybe by December.
Two for fun-
Faunus (Marsyas, actually, but my vision of Faunus nonetheless).
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