Comments on: Day 157 — You’re Caller, No. 3 http://www.girlonthebrink.com/2009/09/02/day-157-delay/ Panicked, desperate and going for broke, Girl on the Brink, a professional, divorced urban mom, chronicles her day-to-day existence in the brave new, bushwhacked economy from the day she got fired. Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:00:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: bill Van Steenis http://www.girlonthebrink.com/2009/09/02/day-157-delay/comment-page-1/#comment-452 bill Van Steenis Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:24:57 +0000 http://www.girlonthebrink.com/?p=3681#comment-452 I love how you talk about delaying retirement. I used to have retirement savings. I have been living on my IRA since January. It will last until December. After that I am going to move to Manassas and ask my son in law for a job bagging groceries at his store. As far as retirement goes my new retirement plan is two paramedics and a black plastic bag. Thats all thats left. I'm OK with that. I never really wanted to retire anyway. Maybe I should run for congress. My life would be set then and I'd have free health care for life and a big fat retirement carried on the backs of entrepreneurs, those evil rich bastards who have laid everyone off. Oh that's right I am one. Ha! Who would have thought I'd be in this position? Certainly not me. But like many of you here I am, working from one day to the next trying to figure out what the next step will be. I refuse to give up. I will not just lay down and wait to die. I'm not wired that way. I will pick myself up every morning and try to make something new to do, some way to restructure my business to make money again. Additionally I will network and make new opportunities to build my business back up again. Don't give up! I love how you talk about delaying retirement. I used to have retirement savings. I have been living on my IRA since January. It will last until December. After that I am going to move to Manassas and ask my son in law for a job bagging groceries at his store.

As far as retirement goes my new retirement plan is two paramedics and a black plastic bag. Thats all thats left. I’m OK with that. I never really wanted to retire anyway. Maybe I should run for congress. My life would be set then and I’d have free health care for life and a big fat retirement carried on the backs of entrepreneurs, those evil rich bastards who have laid everyone off.

Oh that’s right I am one. Ha! Who would have thought I’d be in this position? Certainly not me. But like many of you here I am, working from one day to the next trying to figure out what the next step will be. I refuse to give up. I will not just lay down and wait to die. I’m not wired that way. I will pick myself up every morning and try to make something new to do, some way to restructure my business to make money again. Additionally I will network and make new opportunities to build my business back up again. Don’t give up!

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