Fixed Rates

If you are struggling along, living paycheck to paycheck in your job, you know life can be tough as far as money goes. The bright side is that you are working and earning a paycheck, a steady income. Imagine how much tougher life will be when you finally get to that golden age and you can tell the boss where to put his job and you retire. Retirement is a great thing in that the body finally gets a chance to slow down and hopefully the person can enjoy life without work. I did heavy manual labor jobs all my life and they took their toll on my poor skinny body. Retirement was a godsend for the body. It was not a godsend for the wallet though. Now that I am here I realize there were some mistakes made along the way, like I should have had a fixed rate annuity account to help bolster my measly retirement income. Fixed rate annuities pay like a bank CD, they accrue interest that will help add more money and that money will also gain interest. If one starts this process early enough they can have a very nice extra income when that person retires. The joy of these annuity accounts is that you can add just a little of your paycheck to start them and keep them going. Like any other deduction from your paycheck you will miss it at first but soon you will be used to the new lower amount and go on, doing whatever you need to do to pay the bills and live. Don't wait until it is too late and you have retired. Remember, Social Security may or may not still be around when you retire. Make plans for yourself and have a much better lifestyle as a retiree get your annuity started now while you are young.

Retirement

The boss came into the lobby tonight and let the players know that come the end of January she will be gone as Admin and just a regular player. She has had enough and is retiring.
Everyone says they will miss her although some of them players were secretly grinning from ear to ear I know. Their joy will be short-lived though as she has already picked her replacements. Yep, plural. two Mods will become Admins and the players are not going to be all that thrilled at who she has picked I guarantee that much.
She has not told anyone other than those that truly needed to know who the two mods are and that suits me just fine. The less the players know about it the better since it is none of their business anyway.

Well-Planned Retirement

Outside the Bristol Zoo , in England , there is a parking lot for 150
cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant carrying a ticket machine
charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches £5 (about $7).
This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years.
Then, one day, he just didn't turn up for work.
"Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management - "we'd better phone up the City
Council and get them to send a new parking attendant..."
"Err ... no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility."
"Err ... no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed
by the City Council, wasn't he?"
"Err ... NO!" insisted the Council.
Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, is a bloke who had
been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $560) per
day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this
amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7 million)!
And no one even knows his name

Happy Monday to you!

It's a brand new week. I am hopeful that this week will be better than the last one, at least for blogging.

If you are one of those that has to go to work, I feel for you. However, even though I like retirement, the money is not good and in some ways, I envy those who have to work.

My work now consists of blogging, and tweaking. I will get my blogs in order, I swear I will. Somewhere there must be an answer, or someone who can supply the answer. I just have to keep believing :)

Have a great week people!!!