Hi Everyone.
Like many of you, I used to have grand plans which went out the window once real life started. At 19 I had it great, I worked at the mail room of the same company my dad and some other family members worked at. I had my grand plan running well. I would spend some a few years in the mail room and move up to a computer job. Anything to work on a computer and not do manual labor. I don’t have a problem with manual labor it’s just my body wasn’t made for it. I was and still am five feet tall and was eighty pounds. Now I weigh around 120 – 125. I used to have to push this huge cart miles a day. We had internal mail routes. I was the warehouse route. I would push a big cart I could barely see above around the warehouse and production areas of the office building. It was an OK job but hard on my body. I would go home sore but I put in a hard day of work.
One of the things I would deliver are these 20-40 pound suite case like things full of paper from one plant to another. Once they hit my plant I would deliver them to shipping and what they used them for I will never know. Another thing I would deliver is copy paper. Those boxes are HEAVY and at eighty pounds and five feet tall I did what ever I could to deliver them. But I used to think, I have a job and a great retirement package. My father retired at 55 years old,with 37 years of service and my plan was to retire at 55 with 35 years of service.
We would get our full retirement package early. After eight years I moved up to a computer job uploading things onto the mainframe.
I was happy and things were doing well. Then at year 22 they laid off almost my whole group. I was on second shift so I could go to school to be a graphic and web designer in another department where I worked.
Well it threw me for a loop and it was nine years ago and I am just recovering now. Now things are going OK, but I need to get my stuff together. I need to go on a budget so I can pay my bills.
My new plan as I have said earlier is to start my own business doing design on the side for extra money. I want to have everything Paid off in five years ten tops. So I can start thinking about retirement. My great pension is no more, luckily I was smart and started my 401k when I was young. So I need to make another plan and stick to it and make sure I can retire when I am sixty five. So I will make a plan and like Dave Ramsey says I will eat beans and rice and live like no one else so when I retire I can live like no one else. Or at least live OK.
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