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Georges
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| jesusjones wrote: | Thanks for all the valuable information, rhetoric, and Iron jaw. Happy whatever! Your pal; GOD. P.s. that acronym means group of drugs, I mean drunks. Peace! May the big swell push you to a new realization?  |
Join us here on planet earth my friend.Gman Oakland ca.
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jesusjones
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Kind regards and love for the sport bro's. Wait; and hoes!
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isobars
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Oops … sorry, Ducks … I just now saw your question.
| ducks007 wrote: | | Isobars, since you mentioned it and don't mind asking, how did you retire so early? |
Luck and timing factors include:
• The Viet Nam era draft forced me into the Air Force.
• That, a collapse in the engineering job market, and other factors led to a 20-year military career which led to a modest pension at age 45.
• 6-7 weeks of vacation time per year while in the Air Force also contributed to mucho playtime.
• We maximized our investment efforts during the 1990s, the greatest sustained boom in history.
Hard work factors include:
• Busting my ass 19/7 through 6 years of college, plus years more at a lesser pace.
• Investing 1/3 of our gross income through the 1990s.
• Managing my career actively rather than letting the chips fall at random. I targeted, pursued, and achieved every civilian job and military assignment I pursued my whole life, from state-of-the-art corporate and government research labs to testing WS gear in exotic locations and writing a WS gear test magazine.
• Managing finances from insurance to consumer purchases as diligently as we did our careers.
• My wife had marvelous civilian and government teaching and engineering careers and now a substantial pension due to her abilities and effort.
• Similar effort moved my wife's career to the Gorge area a decade ago. (You should see the looks on her career peers when they ask me "What do you do?" and I respond "Windsurf".)
Choices:
• We don’t buy crap like movie popcorn, whole life insurance, $50 sneakers, houses worth twice our annual income, bling, $3k vacations to iffy wind spots, frequent restaurant meals, new boards or cars just because they’re “new and improved” … Choices like those effectively and easily boost our annual disposable income by five figures.
• No kids.
• No expensive cities.
• Being free to WS full time was more important to me than career or more money the past 22 years.
The rewards have been beyond my wildest expectations by many measures, which explains my occasional attempts to motivate others to pay more attention to life’s meaningful options and less to its useless distractions.
Mike \m/
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Georges
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| Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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No one can know what it is like to be you iso. And we are all thankful of that. When you compleat your manafesto and move from your little cabin
in the woods please be sure to give us your new contact info. Gman 
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pacspeed
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Holy Crap gman...way to break it down.
Classic.
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Georges
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