Retirement announcement
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Topic: Retirement announcement
Posted By: mark/indiana
Subject: Retirement announcement
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 10:14am
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Monday is my last day...now I can be free to go to more of the Allis shows in the Midwest...I will still farm and work on special projects for the Mrs. First time in 33 years that I don't have go to work on a schedule...Mark
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mark/indiana..."My favorite Allis Tractor or Crawler is the one I'm sitting on at the time!!..
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Posted By: Max(ia)
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 10:26am
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Congrats, Mark. As I've said before, best job I've ever had. lol
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Posted By: Butch(OH)
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 10:26am
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Let me be the first to say congrats man! I have 13 years to go.
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Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 11:38am
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13 yrs for me too. Orange with envy.
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Posted By: Lance/SC
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 11:52am
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Will be starting my fourth year on April fools day after 46 years in the work force. I highly recommend it.
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Posted By: FredinInd
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 12:08pm
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Hope you enjoy your new "job" for a long time to come Mark. Still doesn't seem like there's enough time in a day, even when you are retired. Congrats.....
FredinInd
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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 1:06pm
As one retired orange guy to another, congratulations! I'm into year 6 - more fun than human beings should be allowed to have with their clothes on.
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WC, CA, D14, WD45
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 1:32pm
Congratulations, Mark. Now you will wonder how you found time to work a regular job. I have more to do now than when I was employed, but then I was one of those "government workers."
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Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God.
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Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 1:50pm
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I admit, I prefer retirement over working. Ya still have a lot to work on, but you get to choose what and when. When I retired a while back, some of my working friends contemplating retirement asked if there was an adjustment period. There sure is, lasts about 5 minutes that first morning, but you can get through that.
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Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 2:22pm
I agree with Jim on adjustment period. However, I don't think mine lasted quite that long. Congratulations andbe prepared to get busier than you have been for a long while.
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When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!!
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Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 3:00pm
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Mark, It won't take too long before you wondered how you found time to work.
Enjoy. I've been at it for 13 years and still look forward to every day.
Good Luck!
Bill Long
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Posted By: jerry m
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 3:26pm
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i retired almost 3 years know i like it just fine go to the shows and have a lot of fun enjoy while you can Jerry
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Posted By: wfmurray
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 5:38pm
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Been out 10 years. Never get a day off never catch up.
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 5:48pm
Let me get this right. Butch and Glenn are gonna work till they're 75? LOL
Mark, have a long and prosperous retirement. Charlie
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http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com
Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF
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Posted By: David(Stockbridge)MI
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 6:05pm
Started my 4th year march 1st, work longer hours now than I did before. 3 restored tractors last year instead of 1.
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Posted By: bryani289swmi
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 6:17pm
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Congratulations Mark. My dad retired from his small business the year I graduated high school, 1985 at age 50. When they aren't in Florida he still shows up at my place about 3 days a week to play around in the shop, mow my lawn, etc. I hope you enjoy it as much as my parents have.
Bryan
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Sticks and stones may break my bones but hollowpoints explode on impact.
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Posted By: Allen Dilg
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 8:08pm
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Hello Mark Welcome to RETIREMENT!!! I had to QUIT my job 10yrs ago because it was interfering with my HOBBY. And even today I still enjoy LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW, but spring is coming quick!!!
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Posted By: David Gantt N.C.
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 8:19pm
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Hope you have a long and happy retirement, I can't wait
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Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 8:21pm
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Congrats Mark! I may never know what retirement is. At the rate i'm going, there won't be any SS to help out. I would have to be 70 to get it if there was any, and something always seems to eat up that savings nest egg as soon as it starts looking like it might amount to something.
Dad retired 4 years ago. He seems to be thoroughly enjoying himself, but stays busier than he ever was. Like already said here, he gets to choose what he does now and when. Enjoy yourself!
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Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 8:37pm
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congratulations. Hoping to get a few more years in myself but the 401K is only back to about a 301K
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Posted By: j.w.freck
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 9:47pm
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congrats are in order my friend.i retired 3 years ago(airline trash).now fool with my 7 tractors.no more flying all over the world and no more layovers in some god forsaken part of the world.....
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Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 10:00pm
Congratulations.Enjoy yourself and try to take it easy.I only hope my I will still be in good enogh shape to do the things I want.Tomorrow I am going to a funeral for an older Plumber I knew.He worked up till the end,73 years old and was still working.Another older plumber retired,he had to move,he said people would not leave him alone.I started a Roth IRA a couple years ago.Wish I had started sooner.
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You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails
1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF.
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Posted By: Osage_Orange
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 11:05pm
It's important to wind down gradually.........Don't just stop working!.........something may snap! Sooooooooooooo, I got lots of projects here to help you wind down gradually, if you run out of stuff to do (I doubt you will, but just wanted to offer)! ENJOY!
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Why is there never time to do it right the first time, but always time to go back and fix it?
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Posted By: dudley wallace
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 7:09am
good job mark i cant wait till i can do the same thing be seeing you at the march a/c partners meeting in tipton and we will celabrate your retirement have fun with it dudley
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a member of hendricks county antique tractor and machinery association club.
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Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 8:28am
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I've been retired for over 9 years now, it seems more like 3. I like to say that I do what I want to do, when I want to.
Dusty
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917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express"
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Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 8:42am
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I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but this retirement thing isn't all it's hyped up to be.
1. you don't have any vacation
2. you don't have any sick leave
3. the honey-do's still come
4. nobody wants to hear your whining-now I will get back to running the heavy equipment around the home-i.e. dishwasher, vacuum cleaner, washer, dryer, push mower(I always did run the riding mower)
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Posted By: FredW
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 10:11am
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Old enuf, just going to keep winding down till I cant go anymore. Good job Mark, see you at the meeting. Fred
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Posted By: Reindeer
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 4:26pm
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I've a few years to go, but looking forward to starting the day with nothing to do, and going to bed with it only half done. Congratulations.
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Posted By: mark/indiana
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 4:20pm
Thanks for all the good thougts...been busy doing oil changes etc..Rick , good luck with your 301K...I personally have a 401AC..which hopefully won't need soon!..but everything but my wife is for sale..Dudley. see you in Tipton...Mark
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mark/indiana..."My favorite Allis Tractor or Crawler is the one I'm sitting on at the time!!..
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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 4:26pm
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Still keep thinking about it then the electric or heat bill comes and have to put it off for a while longer.
After 39 years with last place and then them closing dowen well forced retirement. Now been driving going on 4th year after the college thing and working for school .
Here i have those 12 cycles just waiting for me to get busy on and do some fixing and riding , then the other projects also waiting ... ONE OF THESE DAYS ?
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Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something.
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
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Posted By: dadsdozerhd5b
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 6:09pm
congrats! take those projects slow, you don't want to pull a muscle or something. i will probably have to work til they plant me. enjoy the time with family, it goes fast.
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HD5B, HD5G, (2) FARMALL A's, CUB. DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME, IGNORE THE LAUGHTER. FLANNEL IS ALWAYS IN STYLE.
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