I’d LOVE LOVE LOVE a pension like that. It sounds like you’re one of the lucky ones.[/quote]
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cvmom, you would have had to have been me (in the era I earned it) in order to be eligible for it.
I had to return to work after maternity leaves within ten weeks of initially starting it [/quote]
Actually I returned to work after 8 weeks after both of my births. Would have been 6 weeks except I had a C-section.
[quote=bearishgurl]Got off work at 5:00 pm and the last quarter of the year it got dark at ~4:30 pm.
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me too
[quote=bearishgurl]Until 1990, wore skirts, dresses, dress shoes and hose nearly every day.[/quote]
me too, until 1997 when I moved to the West Coast
[quote=bearishgurl]PC at one’s desk? What’s that?? Only after 1990 (amber/blk screens until 2000).[/quote]
me too
[quote=bearishgurl]You better give the impression of liking and respecting your supervisor or your life could be made hell really fast . . . [/quote]
I would say this is still the case for me
[quote=bearishgurl]Oh, and cvmom, my kids were in FT daycare since infancy. They were picked up every day between 5:35 and 6:00 pm.[/quote]
Similar situation here. Now that they are older I depend on the stay-at-home-mom network to help me out with after-school driving.
[quote=bearishgurl]I could go on but you get the drift.[/quote]
I am not saying that the boomers didn’t work hard, and don’t deserve their pensions. My parents both have them, and I am so grateful that I will not have to worry about supporting them. I just wish that I had the same for my 20+ years in the full-time workforce…but none of the companies I have worked for have offered that benefit. That is why we live way below our means, to avoid eating catfood when we retire…
