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PhilcaseinWPa

05-25-2007 11:13:44




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Well in 3 hours I will be retired for the summer. Then I farm full time untill things really get busy in mid August and I become unretired and leave a lot of harvest and marketing work to my wife. One more year and I can retire for real. It can't come soon enough (esp. for my wife)!! Now why I want to leave this well paying job that is warm in the winter, air conditioned in the summer, never physically demanding, to work as a full time farmer I don't know. Guess I'm mentally challenged like the rest of us on this board who rather talk tractors and do farming than something else.

See ya in the fall, I won't be checking in much this summer.

Phil

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730virgil

05-26-2007 15:37:54




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 11:13:44  
i hear ya! i would like to be able to buy 40 acres behind me and put a good fence around the whole thing and farm it the way i want. i'd put another 10 acres in grass for hay and pasture. the rest would be split between corn and beans rotation. mrs 730 disablity makes it so i can't be gone more than a couple of hours at a time. thank god she gets good retirement and i'm getting good return from ethanol stocks. i don't miss the last job i had at all.i spent 15 years there and didn't even a thankyou.

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JRT

05-25-2007 22:50:13




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 11:13:44  
After 30 years working for the government, I retired 6 years ago-- on the very day I qualified. No regrets yet. When I left they asked me how much of my retirement pention I wanted to take out monthley for income taxes. I said NONE. They said that would hurt me bad in April. I still said NONE, I am going to farm. I have not paid a dime of income tax since. Loose enough on the farm so I don't have to. I still enjoy every minute of it plus, my health is a lot better and I'm still living. Much more on the job would have done me in.

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05-25-2007 21:02:36




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 11:13:44  
Live your passion!!



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Paul from MI

05-25-2007 17:01:52




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 11:13:44  
Go for it if you really want to get away from the rat race. I tried to retire two years ago. boss made me a deal I couldn"t turn down. Work two days a week, doing the part of the job I loved. Don"t have to do all the administrative crap I didn"t like, just design and build special machines. This just ain"t workin", it"s playin" and when I get tired of it I farm until next week. Great life, I hope to be doing it for a long time. Mechanical Engineer, Journeyman Tool & Die Maker, and Master Electrician, and farmer. Most of all I"m proud to be a farmer.
Just my opinion,
Paul

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37 chief

05-25-2007 16:49:45




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 11:13:44  
I had to make that decision last year. I had a real secure job liked what I did, but after 36 years with the same company, and a year and a half from collecting SS I was out of there. I now spend my time with my discing, and mowing business. I don't make 1/2 the money I did at the factory, but I am my own boss, and love every minute of it dust and all. stan



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PhilcaseinWPa

05-25-2007 14:00:18




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 11:13:44  
Hey it's 5 o'clock somewhere.....HERE!!
I'm gone
bye



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in-too-deep

05-25-2007 17:41:14




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 14:00:18  
Gosh Phil, you stayed at work an extra 14 seconds!!



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Stan - Florida

05-25-2007 12:41:09




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 11:13:44  
50+ years ago, I was going to Purdue and studying Agriculture. Our local veterinarian asked me, "After you graduate, are you going to be a farmer or an agriculturist?" When I asked him what was the difference, he replied, "A farmer makes his money on the farm and spends it in town...an agriculturist makes his money in town and spends in on the farm."

Never did either...made my money in town and don't know where I spent it.

Stan
Melbourne, FL

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georgeky

05-25-2007 12:07:47




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 11:13:44  
I have had to go and get jobs several times in the past to finance my farming habit. That is kinda dumb I know, but can't seem to leave the farm.



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mike in New Mexico

05-25-2007 11:27:03




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Sounds like my wife and son-both are teachers !



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Kelly Campbell

05-25-2007 11:19:44




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 Re: 3 more hours in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 05-25-2007 11:13:44  
Cause your like the rest of us and love it! Be safe!



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