OK let's hear from you geezers

[Skittles]

when my earnings for this year are reported to Social Security, I will have FIFTY CONSECUTIVE YEARS of earnings, including four years of military service. FORTY EIGHT of those years are full time. So, who among you can beat this, and how many of you are women? I'm expecting several replies!


*Special Note to lurking repukes who think we liberals don't like to work: GO FUCK YOURSELVES

[Freddie]

1. Sounds like me

Got my first W2 job at 16 and I’m 66. Every time I hear some Repug insinuate that we “don’t work” I want to throttle them.

On edit: I’m female. Started working FT when I graduated college at 22, only took 2 brief maternity leaves in there. Sort-of retired at 63 (I get a public school pension) but I’m still working about 15 hrs/week.

[TomSlick]

94. Similar story. I'm 65.

Had my first W2 job at 16, pumping gas to support my car and to be able to take my girl-friend (now my wife) to pizza and a movie on the weekend. Had part-time jobs through college and law school.

After law school, I was in the Army on active duty for five years. After that, I practiced law full time and in the Reserves for 23 years. I still work full-time at my law firm. (It's a great part-time job, the only issue is which 12 hours a day I work.) My plan is to work full-time until I can't.

So yeah, I ain't above working.

[scarletlib]

2. Not me. No how. No way.

Unless of course you count the 50+ years of unpaid housework, parenting, cooking, shopping, bill paying etc for my family.

[Skittles]

6. yeah well

workers do all that stuff too

[scarletlib]

27. That's on top of a 40+ hour per week paying job for nearly 40 yrs.

I don’t know your sex or personal history but not many men I know have worked the equivalent of 2 jobs for most of their adult life.

[Skittles]

110. but a lot of us gals have

and I worked 50+ hour weeks for decades....

[scarletlib]

115. So like me you have had the equivalent of 2 jobs + per years. It's what we do.

[lostnfound]

24. Valuable hard work

Thankless tasks. Hopefully you will still be rewarded at least via a spouse’s or former spouse’s earnings. One of the more sensible aspects of the program, that at least it’s available to many whose work was in support of their family. Though not all.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Working since 1972, starting as a medical file clerk.

Over the years: medical assistant, EKG tech, assistant bookkeeper, ice cream service, tech and head of language lab, media sales, medical transcriber, medical secretary, legal secretary, paralegal, attorney, substitute teacher, executive at parcel delivery service, producer of radio talk show (progressive, what else?), cashier, production in bakery and ice cream, and stuff I just can't remember.

Not that it's germane, IMHO, I am a woman.

[pwb]

4. About the same here.

I was a pin boy at 14 and that was my first year of contributions.

[brush]

5. With all those quarters of work, you should get a nice check...

when it comes up.

And BTW, with all those years in, you sound like a geezer too.

[Glorfindel]

7. Fifty-three years for me when I retired in 2016

including two years in the military.

[magicksmom]

8. Female Boomer

Fifty-one years. 💪😎

[zipplewrath]

9. 40 years

Not even 63 yet. l Retired 3 years ago. But I have this rare thing called a "pension". I'm living fine, haven't even touched by 401K savings, much less other savings. It's not an inflation adjusted pension however, so some day I'll have to dig into my savings (or the dividends thereof). I may delay SS until 67, that'll be as much a political decision as anything.

[Skittles]

16. I have a long-frozen pension

I'll start collecting it with COLA soon......not a lot but with my eventual SS, a nice chunk of change

[doc03]

22. I have a pension also with no COLA. My pension has

lost $700 a month thru inflation in the last 12 years. Buy my SS has not lost any buying power in that time thanks to the COLA.

[spooky3]

10. Congratulations!

[MLAA]

11. I worked 34 years.

Female. You got me! Well done

[2naSalit]

12. 50 years here too.

Would have been more except for my disability thing. If it weren't for SSDI, I'd still be trying to work, maybe it would have killed me by now.

[Skittles]

18. we do what we have to do

yes indeed

I know I have been very fortunate to not suffer any serious health issues in all those decades....

[2naSalit]

25. I wore out...

My small frame skeleton in significant places.

[doc03]

13. I worked full time from 18 to 62 44 years.

[Turbineguy]

14. 1965

But I've had a few gaps like college and a few years after "retirement" in 2001. I teach part-time still.
51 years of credit total.

[Trailrider1951]

15. I can't quite beat your record, Skittles

48 years of employment, 38 of it full time. I've been a technical analyst, geologist, secretary, teaching assistant, greenhouse worker, and a waitress in a doughnut shop. It's been real. And those repukes don't understand that liberals don't like to work for THEM!

[Auggie]

17. Tax year 2022 will make it ...

48 consecutive years of earnings, beginning in 1974.

Been 50 years total (taxed on $42 in 1972 -- I was 15). No income reported in 1973.

Holy cow!

One edit: Aiming for 5 more. Then retirement.

[SlimJimmy]

19. I've been working full time without a break since I was 16.

66-16 = 50. We're TIED !!!

[catbyte]

20. I'm a slacker. And a woman. I guess that makes me a female slacker.

I topped out at 43 straight years, the first 3 years were part-time because I was still in high school for the first two and only worked part-time during my first year of college. After that, I worked full-time, which is why it took me 6 years to get my degree. If I hadn't retired early at age 59 when I found out I was eligible, I would've tied you by now, lol. But hey, when I discovered I would make just as much money retired as working, I put in my 2 weeks' notice and haven't regretted it one bit. It gives me more time to look up videos of hot men who love animals.

And I co-sign your statement about any lurking MAGAts.

[Skittles]

59. I do love your steady stream of hot men who love animals

YEE HAW

[Kaleva]

21. After reading your post, I need to take a nap

[childfreebychoice]

31. My 28 yrs pale in comparison. Need a nap.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. I don't like to work.

[roamer65]

26. I've never drawn unemployment...EVER.

I’m ultra liberal, borderline socialist.

I’m only 4 years away from SS eligibility.

[ProfessorGAC]

36. Same Here

I graduated from college at 19. Did all graduate education while working full-time. Changed jobs twice, but with no gaps.
I took SS early because my math showed it was way under 50:50 that I'd ever break even when the full benefit kicked in.

[Skittles]

97. I too have never drawn unemployment

*noting that there's nothing wrong drawing UE if you need it

[Genki Hikari]

107. I wish I could say the same, but I started working full time in the 80s

Layoffs were rampant. I had multiple jobs where I was "downsized," because I was the last person in, so the first to go.

I got really tired of that.

[TalenaGor]

28. 53 F

Started working farm chores at 8...first job at 16...abused child, hs drop out...worked my way to 6 fig income....lost everything twice & had to start over....fuck capitalism

[MarineCombatEngineer]

29. Well, I certainly can't beat that,

but I can beat the 4 years of military service with 35 years of military service.

*Special Note to lurking repukes who think we liberals don't like to work: GO FUCK YOURSELVES

Wholeheartedly agree.

[dweller]

30. You win !

Good job 👍



✌🏻

[ProfessorGAC]

32. I Only Paid In...

...for 43 years as a full-time employee. I know I paid in a piddly amount for a few years working part-time while in school.
So, I didn't get near 50 years like you did.

[usonian]

33. When I started working (OK, I did a little tutoring before this)

[allegorical oracle]

34. Started working at 15 after school. Retired at 66 -- half a century. Am female.

[barbtries]

35. I can't beat that.

I didn't work for 3 years after my daughter was killed. Now at age 67 I'm still working though part time only. Other than that time of dysfunction and grief, i've worked since I was 16 years old, not counting the babysitting I did prior to that.

[Deuxcents]

61. Hugs for you 🤗

[barbtries]

102. Thank you.

a long road.

[Skittles]

96. I think you did beat that

[SergeStorms]

37. Compared to most....

I'm a slacker. Only 40 years of full-time work until I retired.😔 I'm so ashamed.

[Chainfire]

38. I worked full time from age 18 to 66, it was about 150 years.

I am coming up on five years retirement and I haven't missed my work, or coworkers or gotten bored yet. I will go back to work as a last resort after trying church looting, bank robbery and rolling old ladies and kids lemon aide stands.

From age 12 to 16 I worked Summers on a tobacco farm, and from 16 to 18 I worked evenings after school. I paid in my first SS in 1966.

[Ananda62]

39. Can't beat your total

I’m female and almost 61 yrs old, I have 42 years of working, including 4 in the military. I retired in 2019, but did a contract job in 2021 and 2022.

[haele]

40. 48 years work, 45 years full time, appx 1 year's worth of unemployment in there.

That includes 20 years military service (active and reserve, retired CPO), for which I'm already drawing a pension for since I turned 60.
I will also be able to get a pension for 30 years Federal service plus the 401k we can also contribute to.if I can wait to retire for 7 more years.
That plus my SSI will hopefully allow me and Laz to live in sufficient comfort and to still be able to pass down at least a bit to my stepdaughter and the grandkids I'm currently raising.

Haele

[Wild blueberry]

41. 46 years

Social Security is earned.

[Mossfern]

42. I lose big time!

I took 19 years off work to be a "home maker" and raise my four children. Yes, we were fortunate that my husband made enough money so that we could afford to do that. However my Social Security check now is quite meager even though I worked for 20 years after my youngest turned 9 years old. The reasoning was at the time was that the cost of child care for four children would be more than I would be making if I were working. Not only is my check proportionately meager, but I had to endure the disdain of those who asked me what I "did" and turned their noses up when I meekly 'admitted' that I was a stay at home mom.

Unfortunately one doesn't get SS credit for volunteerism and activism.

[XanaDUer2]

49. Can you also get your husband's social security?

I'm not sure how that works

[pnwmom]

88. As I understand it, you get to choose the amount you've earned on your own account

or half of the amount your spouse has earned -- whichever is bigger.

Then, if your spouse dies before you do, you start getting whatever they've been getting.

[XanaDUer2]

89. Geez

What a bounty . This country.

[pnwmom]

90. This is how I remember it from my parents. As a homemaker, Mom was getting

50% added onto his 100%, based on his working record. Then when he died, she was eligible for his 100%.

[XanaDUer2]

91. Ah, got it nt

[llmart]

55. Please don't ever "meekly admit" that you were a stay at home mom.

I don't care how many years someone accumulated in a paying job. This isn't a competition. I was a stay at home mom for 14 years, 4 of which I went to college full time/year round while raising my two children, graduating summa cum laude with two degrees and a 4.0 average. I was married to someone who made a decent living, but his job required us to relocate twice - pick up the family and move to other states. I always cared more about my children than money and things. I also thought that them seeing me work as hard as I did to get those degrees set the example for them of how important education and study was.

Once they were both old enough to stay home alone, did get a full time job and worked until I was 69. I also did lots and lots of volunteer jobs and I still volunteer. As I said, I was never driven by money or things.

[Skittles]

58. don't let others put you down

I will never understand how people with kids find the time to do anything, I never have enough time and all I have is a couple of cats!

[The Polack MSgt]

71. I am looking at this from the other side of the fence. I'm proud that we were able to raise our-

children while my wife was a stay-at-home mom.

It was only possible for us because of the programs the DOD had for family support & child development. Enlisted salaries are not exactly sufficient for an extravagant single paycheck lifestyle.

We knew that her SS would be restricted but felt the benefits of a "Leave it to Beaver" style life were significant.

So, I have nothing but respect for your choice.

I also chose to backfill my wife's retirement security after my demise by paying into the survivor benefit pension and extra life insurance.

[Skittles]

100. or you WIN big time!

depending on how we look at it

[ellie]

43. I can't beat

it but I do have 40 years of earnings and am a woman.

[FakeNoose]

45. I started working in 1972 but only doing occasional part-time jobs

I still had my toddler son at home, so I did part-time jobs and some free-lance. I don't believe I started working fulltime 40-hour weeks until after 1980. No military service either, so you definitely beat me.

Way to go my friend!

[debm55]

46. I had 50 years, took 2 years on a sabbatical when we adopted our son. So those 2 years don't count.

Worked full time since 18 years old, and going to college. Taught school for many years. Worked fulltime at a factory 3rd shift , came home and got ready to attend PSU as a fulltime student. Yes, I'm a woman. And I worked damn hard for my SS to the RW lurkers.

[Mblaze]

47. Does living in this schizophrenic country

Count as work?

[IzzaNuDay]

48. Fifty one.

Started as a teenager. Jobs programs.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

50. Only 49 years, including two years military (I don't think I paid into SS while serving).

Only 39 years of continuous actual career income, mostly part-time jobs or graduate-teaching-assistant slave wages before getting a "real" job.

[markodochartaigh]

51. I've worked since I was 14

I started unloading trucks before school, then worked in produce at a grocery store, and as an orderly in a nursing home during high school. After high school I worked my only union job (the only local unskilled job that paid more than minimum wage) until the foreman found out that I was gay and fired me. But I had saved enough for college. Then in college I washed dishes and worked in a nursing home. After I got my nursing license I worked in a local hospital making $6/hr as an RN, until we got a family friendly administration and got fired again, the only two times I was ever fired. But my license allowed me to get a job in the big city at a public hospital where even if co-workers or patients didn't like gays, management wouldn't fire you for it. After thirty years there I retired and will hopefully start to draw Social Security (minus the "Windfall Provision", thanks Ronnie Raygun) next year at 67 and 6 months (thanks again Ronnie). And, of course, I will set aside a little every month to pay taxes on my Social Security (thanks again Ronnie).

[Scalded Nun]

52. Been working since June 1968.

And yes, I agree the repukes can go fuck themselves.

[gab13by13]

53. I worked 45 years but

unless the rules have changed, your benefits, your pay out will be based on your 10 highest earnings years.

[Skittles]

63. it's based on your 35 years of highest earnings

[S/V Loner]

54. I'll be 69 in a few months and it will be...

49 years full time and I am not done yet. I have my own business and it isn't very easy to get out. Hopefully by the time I am seventy. I am lucky that I can still do all the things (well, almost all) I did in my 20's.

[txwhitedove]

56. Hi, Skittles. First part time job at 17, but worked full time 18 to 69, so 51 years total, but

no military service. I raised my 3 kids, and then 3 grandkids.

[Niagara]

57. The lurking repukes already fuck themselves voting repuke.

Only they're too indoctrinated to realize it.

[HAB911]

60. 43 Years (3 Army), not even close

Congrats!

[Hamlette]

62. I have 52 years of earnings and I am female.

I started work when I was 14, took one year off when my son was little and took the first year of law school off. I retired at 67 but was called back to work during the pandemic. I had some great jobs. Getting a college education and staying put in my hometown worked out well for me.

[BMW2020RT]

64. Almost continually employed since 15. I am 61 now.

My life work or what I call my first real job at American Airlines ended October of '21 due in part to my health. I completed 35 years there. I took a year off. Two weeks ago I unretired for some seasonal work at Target. Employment there may continue after Christmas. My employment future will be determined by, in no particular order, my health, investment income and my desire to continue exploring planet Earth by motorcycle.

[Sancho]

65. I filed my first tax return in 71...but it was not "full time" employment...

...working my way through school: textile mill, selling Fuller Brush, Burger King, local steak house, musician, construction labor...anything to earn a buck. I was 1A in the draft in 68, so I stayed in college as long as a deferment was possible. Started teaching full time in 76.

My wife retired in 2020 with 41 years of teaching school.

* I'm still teaching. I will get SS for the first time at 70 1/2 (soon).

[DeeDeeNY]

66. I am working at the SAME COMPANY since 1970

I graduated college in May 1970 and started at my job the next month!

[Skittles]

70. THAT is truly amazing

my decades-long streak in IT has included (due to mergers / takeovers / buyouts) SEVEN different companies

[DeeDeeNY]

75. I could do this only because I was allowed to work remotely

And working remotely was almost a necessity for a mother needing child care arrangements.

[Skittles]

99. I am very sympathetic to my coworkers with kids

I logged in earlier to cover for a coworker for a bit of time while she went to pick up her daughter from school....

[JT45242]

67. 52... Been working since I was 16

But...when I was a school teacher, there were two years that I only put into the pension fund, the other 18, I always worked a second job. Cause you know teachers are underworked and overpaid...my ass.

So only credit for 34 years. Hope to retire at 61 or 62, if health care works out. So, I'll have 43 or 44 years in.

Medicare needs to go down in eligibility not up. VOTE BLUE!!

[grantcart]

74. Also 52

Didn't pay when I was overseas

Eligibility in SS is only based on your highest 40 quarters or 10 years.

[JT45242]

85. But the payout is average of top 35...

Good thing about leaving teaching is I get to keep social security now. The pension fund rolled into 403b.

In Ohio, if you draw STRS you are ineligible for social security.

[Nictuku]

68. 43 Years

Started in 1978 where I worked in a movie theater on Maui (Wailuku) in the concession stand. My first job. It was fairly short lived because my mom had to drive me from upcountry Kula. It was interesting because it was owned by Seiks. Maui was full of hippies back in the day, it was great.

My next job was after I moved back to Honolulu at 17. Maui life wasn't for me back then. I needed the Bright Lights and Big City (Honolulu/Waikiki), and of course, my boyfriend. It took a while, but I did start working again at 18 at Pancho Goldsteins Taco Stand (a restaurant in Waikiki). My (new) boyfriend owned the place. We went out partying after work every night staying up until 4 am. It was a wild time.

After that, I moved back to the mainland, So Cal in Redondo Beach, and worked briefly at an Aaron Brothers Art Mart. Those years, I was here and there, I think I did some personal assistant work for this lady for a while. And then I began to work for a large Property Management company that had apartment buildings all over Los Angeles. This was the job that ended up launching my career. I had switched companies and they had this magical thing that could do the Pay or Quit and Lease Notices without a typewriter and carbon paper! A Computer! I was drawn to it like a moth to a flame. They taught me how to use the Xerox 860 (first WSYWYG screen!) and I became a pro on it, taking over the lady's job who ran it when she retired.

Next I went to work for an environmental agency and was working in their Word Processing department. They had their computer system updated and the people who came in to train us were great, I had a rapport with one lady and thought that I would enjoy doing the kind of work she did (computer trainer) and she got me in to work for a SONY subsidiary, where they had these little word processors that looked like Apples kind of. SONY Word Processors. I taught secretaries and medical transcriptions how to use these systems, and wrote keystroke macros to automate their tasks.

After that, I had several back to back jobs doing different things in the computer industry, training, always learning. Then came Windows (3.1) and at one point I was able to be self-employed working as a consultant for law firms. I moved back to Hawaii while I was doing that. But the consulting work dried up, and jobs in Hawaii had low pay, and I ended up moving back to California, where I temped for a few weeks until I found my major career job with the 9th Circuit Federal Courts. I worked there for 21 years. After 21 years, I had /finally/ topped 100K/year where I got pushed out and offered an early retirement. I took it because I could tell, the writing was on the wall. They were trying to trim their budget, and all 5 of us in our IT Unit took the offer and all left on the same day. At first I was bitter. Felt un-wanted. Unimportant. Scared about whether or not I had saved enough for retiring early (I didn't), and having to face getting another job at the age of 59. But now, after figuring out my finances (I'm going to get a reverse mortgage when I turn 62 next year), and it was possibly a blessing in disguise. The Universe gave me what I wanted. I was TIRED of working. For 21 years, I was up at 3 am, out the door by 4 am, arrived from my commute at 6 am, got home at 6 pm. Ate, slept, and did it over again. I felt like a ZOMBIE. I never got to enjoy my house which is up in the rural Napa hills.

Now I'm retired. Enjoying the deer and turkeys and all the wildlife around the house. I'm on a tight budget, but I am managing (this inflation is very difficult), and next year, if all goes well, I'll be able to take out the equity of my house, pay off the current loan (so I no longer have mortgage payments), and THEN when I get my SS combined with my retirement annuity, I should be able to live comfortably, in this house, until I die.

So yes. I worked my ass off pretty much since I was 16.

If you read this, thanks for taking the time. I was kind of cathartic for me to type it all out. You definitely have me beat Skittles!

[Skittles]

112. that was quite a career ride!

I see retirement on the horizon, I just want a couple more years

[paleotn]

69. Got me beat....

44 years. 38 full time, including 4 in the Navy.

Your last sentence....my feeling exactly!!!!

[Dale in Laurel MD]

72. 54 years, all full time n/t

[EYESORE 9001]

73. My first reported wages are from 1968

$600 or so that year. I thought I was rich.

[debm55]

101. Because so many Boomers were out there looking for jobs, I took a job in a Catholic School. It was

to be a stepping stone to get a job in a Public School. This was in 1978. Yearly pay, $4,000, and as a first year teacher was one hell of a job with tons of works. Had my own apartment to pay for and loans. Took on another parttime 3rd shift job to help with the bills. That was the only time I asked for help from the government for myself. PHEA and PELL loans were paid off because of the location of the school. Frankly, I would march on Washington if my SS was taken away. In my almost 68 years I worked too hard at shitty jobs not to get it as I had paid into it since day 1 of working.

[LudwigPastorius]

76. I can't beat it. I'm only on year 43.

I got a job as a busboy when I was 16, and have been contributing every year since.

[oldtime dfl_er]

77. I started working at 16

My first job was a summer job in a wiping cloth factory. Yes, we made wiping cloths. I worked the back side of the mangle - a giant roller style ironing machine. I stood all day, feeding the hot, wet rags into the mangle. My friend worked the other side. She got to sit down. It was sweltering, the building was dilapidated and filthy, and I made $1.60 an hour. But I was lucky. Another employee, a woman who was handicapped, made half what I made, and her job was to scramble around on the dirty wooden floor and pick up loose buttons. We got a 15 minute break in the mornings and afternoons and a half hour for lunch. During our breaks, we managed to smoke 3 full cigarettes while we cursed the owners. But unemployment in my town in 1968 was more than 20%. My brother remembers going to apply for a part time shelf stocking job at Woolworths, but leaving when he saw the line was around the block.

I'm female, and I'm still working.

Yes, boomers know how to work.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

78. Fifty six years of paychecks for me.

Before that I worked part-time for cash for three years.

[ggma]

79. Filed my first tax return

at 18. All my jobs up til then were "under the table". Filed my last at 66. So, 48years.

Not much to show for it, though. But, survival is its own reward 😉.

gg

[MiHale]

80. Sounds like me...

But there were a couple years while starting my biz that we didn’t pay in. That’s it though.

[Aussie105]

81. Oh, I can beat that easily!

Every teacher in the world will tell you that working as a classroom teacher makes every year feel like two.

Puts me on 80 human years. Or is that cheating?

Workers who slog day in day out on any job for years carry the country. That includes unpaid work like mothering.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[GreenWave]

82. I am just getting started!

I have been working so long that the SS wrote an apology that I was right and they had underfunded me. And they also said I would be getting even more since they noticed I was continuing to work FT. yes Skittles en garde! This headway workhorse is still going!

But enough about work!

1st evah right to grow beard in high school. Defeated Principal right in front of Superintendent.
1st evah conscientious objector to war (Quoting Walter Cronkite here) based on ecology, that is the Love for Planet Earth! is hereby granted a one time exemption...
Defeater of Dick Ichord HUAC!
Defeater of State of Missouri Health Department and their fascist attempt to squelch Columbia Community Grocery Store.
Silencer of John Ashcroft and his attempt to intimidate signors of a new political party (His pachyderms needed only 3 to get on ballot, NOT prove they with 200,000 signatures that people want them back)
First person on Francis Quadrangle to protest fascist destruction of student monuments to Kent State, Jackson State and Orangeburg massacres in addition to dismantling Shanty Town. About 25,000 showed up at impromptu demonstration. University cancelled its $400,000,000 apartheid investment.
Was there in Chicago, Richard Daley mayor for some protests!
There for when Jessie Jackson picked up MLK's fallen torch with his "I am somebody" speech.

And I will stop here...

[11 Bravo]

83. 2 years US Army, 32 years full-time teaching, and 13 years as a substitute.

Even if I counted the subbing as full-time, you still KICKED MY ASS!

[Raftergirl]

84. I stopped working 30 years ago this coming spring, so I probably am the biggest loser. 😉

I’ll reach full retirement in February and will start collecting. I worked after graduating college, but went back to school and got two Masters, then worked a year or so, got married, had kid. And that was that. Once H starts collecting I will get bumped to half of his.

[ancianita]

86. Good on you, badass! I can't beat the work years, but I definitely could beat most geezer incomes.

45 years of work. 34 as a teaching professional.

[Evolve Dammit]

87. HA! Love your Special Note. I worked for 50 and figured that's enough. May do some more at some

point, but only if it brings me some joy or others some value. There's a lot of need out there, that's for sure. some of my early ones were part time....

[tavernier]

92. I'm 76, female, and still working,

Although part time subbing at the high school. I’m a retired nurse. I started working after high school when I was sixteen. So I figure about 60 years of full and part time work, plus motherhood, and house duties, although I always had some kind of a paying job, even when the kids were very little, even if just taking in ironing. I’m a bit of a workaholic and I’m still working because I keep flunking retirement. They ask me, and I can’t say no.

[SharonClark]

93. Worked full time from age 22 to 65.

I couldn’t be happier than I am as a retiree.

I worked hard in IT and was sick of having to constantly learn new languages, protocols, methodologies, and team dynamics. I don’t miss working in the corporate world one bit.

[Skittles]

95. omg don't get me started

when I started in IT, I loaded cards into a reader, hand-loaded tapes onto drives.....to scratch a tape I PEELED OFF THE LABEL

now when everything is supposed to be sooo much easier, it seems like every account wants their own desktop that NEVER works well with others, and I have DOZENS AND DOZENS of passwords......I'll give it a couple more years and then I will hang it up for sure!

[GenThePerservering]

103. I started working at age 15

as a short order cook in a truck stop.

I'm still working and I'm 69 years old.

You can do the math.

And yes, I am female.

[Stinky The Clown]

104. 54 years full time, including my time in the Navy plus 6 years part time as a young person.

I still work full time but will cut down to 2 days a week in January.

[Genki Hikari]

105. I lose out on a great deal of SS

Because I've been a stay-at-home wife and homemaker at various times in my life.

So I was working all of that time, but not drawing an official wage for the work I did.

[Genki Hikari]

106. BTW

I started working at jobs that paid when I was 15. That was 45 years ago.

[Skittles]

109. to be clear

I was never paid for, say, taking care of bills or doing housework either.....

[PlanetBev]

108. I busted my ass, working for 48 years

I’m going to be 72 in twelve days. Been on Medicare for 7 years and Social Security for 6 years. I retired in 2018 and love every minute of it.

These are wonderful programs, courtesy of FDR, LBJ and the Democrats. Thanks guys!

[DFW]

111. Give me 3 years.

I started work with my outfit in August 1975, at age 23. I don’t reach my 50th anniversary for another 3 years.

[PCIntern]

113. 55+ years here of contributions

I never worked off the books a day in my life.

[Emile]

114. I worked 46 years before I stopped being a wage slave!

[BComplex]

116. Me, too, and thanks, Skittles, for this thread!!

[Skittles]

117. you're welcome!

I get very tired of hearing repukes trashing SS and hearing their ridiculous claims about liberals