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September 2024 - Retirement at age 67

EddMarkStarr

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I've done it, I'm retired from the Washington State Education Department. The situation was getting worse by the month as the agency double-down on inclusiveness workshops and diversity trainings. Staff had become so consumed with "anti-racist" and "gender acceptance" practices that agency compliance reporting was missing deadlines with incomplete/inaccurate data.

I'm ready to put all that behind me now and spend time reliving happier moments from my childhood.



You're all invited to enjoy this wonderful clip from the December 1972 CBS live broadcast of, "Once Upon A Mattress", starring Carol Burnett, Ken Berry, plus the cast from the Broadway stage production.


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Congratulations on your retirement. (UU)

It's a pity if all the PC nonsense has forced your hand, but 67 seems like a good age to move on to something new.
 
Congratulations. You are wise to retire when you are still young enough to enjoy yourself.
 
Well done.

We all have our breaking point....mine is now delayed until I am at least 75 at this point, because of projects and clients I am committed to.

So I am envious of anyone who manages to exit and explore a new chapter in life.

We had to go through diversity awareness as part of our professional certification and education programming...and as a homo, I appreciated that it is sadly necessary in so many organizations and professions. It did become the primary focus for a couple of years, but has now been relegated to 'checked that box'.
 
Diversity awareness where I work consisted of black colleagues in positions senior to mine telling the group how they'd struggled with racial prejudice. It didn't go down well.
 
Thank you All.

The situation at work was becoming a farce. Diversity workshops became a crying games as staff in their 40's and 50's relived every moment when someone hurt their feelings. What does crying about the past have to do with diversity?

What pushed me over the edge was all the new employees who seemed to possess no clerical skills. New staff could not navigate to and maintain basic Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. New staff could not complete their payroll timesheets without assistance because they could not follow written instructions on completing timesheets.

It became pointless for me to stay in education at an agency filled with staff that could not read, operate a computer or compile data for a compliance report.


It's like becoming a writer for "the Acolyte" when you know nothing about Star Wars!

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Well God knows if it was becoming anything like the shitshow Acolyte was...you are well away from it.
 
Thank you, I couldn't bring myself to look at the sign on the office building because it had "Education" in the title.
 
Just a note.

I am so fucking jealous.

I am exhausted after everything.

I hope you had a great fucking day.
 
To expand on this....I am literally trying to make my way through day by day at this point.

And am almost in a state of constant terror that I can't keep up with all of it now.

So I envy you the freedom from this.
 
I'll just quietly mention it's been a year since I quit working. You could call it retirement, but after a rotten, no good, pretty bad Walgreens inventory, I consider it quitting.
 
rareboy said:
To expand on this....I am literally trying to make my way through day by day at this point.

And am almost in a state of constant terror that I can't keep up with all of it now.

So I envy you the freedom from this.
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The world of employment has been a lifetime of horrors multiplied by poor pay. My start with the Department of Education began in 2015 at a salary more than ten times anything I was paid in the private sector.. By 2020 I had earned more in five years than the sum total of all my efforts going back to my first job in 1970.

Working for state education gave me access to the teacher's retirement system - the type of vested, comprehensive retirement plan that used to be universal across all the private sector. Today, no one outside of government even offer any sort of retirement plan.

Given my life's history, this is the most incredible outcome financial outcome for me. Up to the year 2015 I could only see my failed life.
 
You will love retirement. It takes a long time to sink in that you're truly retired and to stop feeling like you're on an extended vacation. Every week has six Saturdays and one Sunday. Congratulations.
 
Thad1527 said:
I'll just quietly mention it's been a year since I quit working. You could call it retirement, but after a rotten, no good, pretty bad Walgreens inventory, I consider it quitting.
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I still have many friends working for the state and I'm trying to find out through them if the State Office of Public Instruction will be opening a formal investigation through the State Auditor's Board regarding state and federal funds possibly mishandled by an education department that turned millions of dollars into a "all-you-can-eat" buffet, instead of supporting teachers in the classroom.
 
Congratulations on your retirement. These days when even presidents and ex presidents keep working into their dotage, it's great to see you take the next step to enjoying the rest of your life while you're young enough to enjoy.
 
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