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Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:22 pm

Today was my last day of vacation. I have been off since Thursday, December 20, 2007. Decided to take off vacation all the days my children were off school. I really needed the break from work, though I did keep up with a few things. And I really, REALLY wanted to spend the time with the wife and kids, since my job has me traveling quite a bit. Mission accomplished on both fronts, though I wish I had a bit more time off, as the holidays always seem hectic. January is simply too busy of a month for me to take any additional time though.

Come January 18 I'll celebrate my 20th anniversary with my employer. Got another 18 or so to go at least...

20cows · Post by **20cows** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:44 pm

Congrats on time well spent! (On vacation, I mean).

LeverBob · Post by **LeverBob** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:42 am

Glad you had the time off Kid...time well spent. Good fortune this coming year.

LeverBob

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:27 am

Glad to hear You could enjoy the Holidays. I work in a large retail meat shop and life gets ugly around the first of november,stays that way through Christmas, and with new-years it's all over.... I can now take a deep breath for another year.

.Jim.

homefront · Post by **homefront** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:32 am

I took the roughly the same days, went back yesterday

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More blueprints, more issues. At least the sight is fairly dry.

This leads me to post another thread....

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:14 am

I just got back to work yesterday...I was on vacation since the 21st...
It was really great to just bum around....hunt, spend time with
the parents, went shooting....and watched a ton of westerns...
Worked around the house....
It surely was hard to go back.....

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:16 am

Good for you YK, it is hard to beat time spent with your family

66GTO · Post by **66GTO** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:27 pm

Ysabel Kid wrote: Come January 18 I'll celebrate my 20th anniversary with my employer. Got another 18 or so to go at least...

I've been retired 4 1/2 years now. Eighteen years seems like a long way to go, but it kind of sneaks up on you.

A word to the wise, plan now for retirement (meaning save for retirement now). I am living comfortably in my retirement, but realize now I could have saved more during my working years. I would have more money for guns today if I had

Mike-in-WV · Post by **Mike-in-WV** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:59 pm

Ysabel Kid, It sounds like you had a good vacation and it also seems that you enjoy whatever you do for a living and your boss. My Dad loved his job abd the guys who worked for him but he hated his boss for all the 30 years he worked at that job. He always told us boy's that if we found a job and boss that we really liked then "we would never have to work for a living" It didn't take me long to find out what he really meant. Mike

bsaride · Post by **bsaride** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:02 pm

What's a vacation?

WTG, tomorrow I will have 14 yrs with current boss.

Jan 18 is my b-day.

Nice post makes me think of things, lol

wm · Post by wm » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:14 pm

"Come January 18 I'll celebrate my 20th anniversary with my employer. Got another 18 or so to go at least"

Lord do I know that feeling......in April I'll have 22 years with another 22 to go to retire at age 62! Some days it feels like I have 'golden' handcuffs on and I am counting down my sentence until I am set free.

oldgerboy · Post by **oldgerboy** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:24 pm

My wife and I spent the week between Christmas and New Years in Charlesto, South Carolina. I wanted to check to see if anyone here was from that area but couldn't log in to ask. We are back and I can get in here thanks to 1886 and Hobie and anyone else.

We take these cold weather trips to warmer areas as a present to each other and a relaxing getaway. It started when my daughter was in the WVU band and we followed them to bowl games in the 90's.

(PLEASE NOTE THE OUTCOME OF THE WVU/OKLAHOMA GAME

)

As far as work goes, I have 19 months, 4 days to go until I'm eligable for an early retirement with bennies ... not that I'm counting!

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:52 pm

congrats to a well deserved and a well taken vacation. blessings

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:56 pm

I start mine tomorrow.

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