Sunday's Activities Include: track! horse, NYAJ

[walkitout]

T. had his first track session of the fall. Yay! We went home for lunch. R. continued to do yard work (stump removal, planting blueberry bushes). A. had horse in the morning; T. had horse in the afternoon. I got to chat with M. I had a walk with my walking partner M.

Today is the 20th anniversary of my last day working full time. I have occasionally worked for pay (altho not for some years now -- I think I've finally figured out all the ways I wind up getting sucked into taking a job, and now stop that process firmly early), but never because I was trying to do so. Raising two kids (special needs kids) does mean that I don't feel particularly retired most of the time.

Looking back over the last two decades, it is clear to me that there were certain decisions I made financially that made my current position possible. Even tiny changes -- often ones that everyone else was very much in favor of -- would likely have resulted in me returning to full time employment already. Please feel compassion for elderly people whose money runs out in their 80s. Their choices are far more constrained than mine are (or were). And please support government policies which ensure that ordinary people with ordinary options and ordinary luck and ordinary judgment can still enjoy a comfortable old age without worrying about becoming homeless or not being able to afford their medication.

Tax people like me to pay for it. I'm totally fine with that.

Comments

[ethelmay]

Amen. I would also like businesses to stop trying to maximize my stock values by minimizing worker wages, decreasing workplace safety, or unduly avoiding taxes. The more stable a society we have, the less I'm going to need gobs of extra cash socked away to ensure my own stability. Healthcare costs in particular. It's not even just the ridiculously high prices, it's the unpredictability of those prices. So most people can't save nearly enough, and those who have the ability to save have to save far too much (taking money out of circulation) in order to prepare for emergencies that may not happen -- or rather, will certainly happen, but not necessarily to them.