A Future View??

This week has been interesting – after the luggage arrived home on Tuesday that is! – it's been a view of what retirement might be like. Not having to get up in the morning – not having much of anything that has to be done. (There's plenty to do but I can't seem to get the ambition to actually do any of it – I am planning to at least LOOK at the mess in the living room!!)


I'm not sure I can do this every day – I mean really – West Wing reruns only capture me for so long – so I guess I'd be compelled to look for something outside the house to do – WORK! I don't want full-time and I don't want to continue working part-time at MPOW. If I stay there I might as well be paid my full salary!

I don't remember ever thinking about being old enough to retire – let alone getting old enough to retire! But here I am.


PS I applied to refinance the house – it's all done online – very strange – no one to talk to! We'll have to see how it goes.

Why?

The local newspaper, for whatever reason, has posted salaries of full-time city employees (all the local cities) in an online searchable database.  You can search by job title & department or simply click on the city for a list of all the departments.  If you have some knowledge of the department it's not too hard to figure out who's who (for those job titles with more than one position listed) because there's a date of employment listed.  For those job titles with only one person, it's a slam dunk!

A sure fire way to ensure that co-workers become suspicious of each other - or upset because of salary differences (and there definitely are some).  Salaries, politics and religion - three things that don't need to be discussed at work (and I'm flexible on politics!!).  SIGH