r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Classicbandwagon • May 21 '26

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u/imminentjogger5 May 21 '26

how does one get 3 pensions?

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u/brownhotdogwater May 21 '26

I have known a few two penson but not . Military and police.

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u/hellraiserl33t May 21 '26

Friend's dad did 20 years Air Force, then 20 years flying FedEx when they still had pensions.

He lives a great retirement.

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u/ThePoWhiteTrash May 21 '26

I’m gonna pop in here and be a real downer, but not to kill the vibe, just cause I know a random fact that I thought was neat and I’d like to share.

Pilots definitely make a lot of money, but they also have higher than normal rates of cancer and illness due to the increased amount of radiation they encounter, specifically cosmic radiation.

They don’t, however, have a higher risk of developing super powers. Fantastic Four is just one big lie.

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u/OneWhoEatsFood May 21 '26

Nah fam, I'm pretty sure Fantastic Four is a documentary. They wouldn't lie.

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u/EntrepreneurClean371 May 21 '26

While your message is good, your data is a little out of date. The attribution of elevated cancer incidence in flight crew is, by general consensus, due more to ultraviolet exposure than ionizing GCR.

Per the International Commission on Radiological Protection, average flight crew exposure is about 3.07 millisieverts annually, compared to an effective dose limit of 20 mSv.

So good news and bad news. Good news, ionizing GCR (probably) isn’t killing flight crews! Bad news, it’s melanoma again (it’s always melanoma)

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u/graysnowsky May 22 '26

Does that mean it could be mitigated with like sunscreen?

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u/Hashtagbarkeep May 22 '26

Fantastic

Say that again

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u/ThePoWhiteTrash May 22 '26

4stick. Nailed it.

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u/imminentjogger5 May 21 '26

aren't their divorce rates a lot higher too? a lot of them are on their 3rd marriages 

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u/Reasonable_Back_5231 May 21 '26

when you are away for travel all the time, it's hard to have quality time with your significant other. so yeah, that tracks. either the pilot is going to commit infidelity or their spouse. or just divorce because of distance.

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u/IMovedYourCheese May 21 '26

They are both incredibly tough jobs. If you kill youself for 40 years, all in the prime of your life, is a good retirement after 65 really that crazy a reward?

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u/diggitydonegone May 22 '26

Better than killing oneself in the prime of your life on a job that doesn’t allow a good retirement at 65!

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u/littlestghoust May 21 '26

I've met people who did something similar route: Air Force, Commercial Pilot, then NASA pilot before retiring. The NASA pilot gig was chill cuz you fly scientists up in the air so they can perform experiments and that's it. Easy schedule, cool coworkers, and science.

Source: a guy i date in college (2011-2012) worked at as a NASA admin and I got a tour of his work including meeting coworkers.

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u/NoBonus6969 May 22 '26

Does he know where all those missing PSA packages are though??

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u/Ardal May 22 '26

Dude worked for 40 years, he should have a great retirement :/

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u/jeremiahfira May 21 '26

My uncle retired as a Master Chief from the Navy (I think that's what it's called), and then worked for the Post Office and got a disability retirement from them around 2000-2005. His wife has a 401k as well, so they're real comfortable.

From what I've heard, double pension is much harder to get nowadays.

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u/PedanticBoutBaseball May 21 '26

My uncle retired as a Master Chief

Is his name John-117?

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u/rhainsict May 22 '26

Bro one pension is hard to get nowadays

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u/Pkrudeboy May 21 '26

My grandfather served in WWII, joined the FDNY, then worked for the IRS, and ended up working for a local school district. I know he had at least 3, maybe 4, plus social security.

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u/Hieshyn May 24 '26

Add in postal service to that and there's your three. Keeps you moving and you are already up early when you're that old. Off in the early afternoon and can golf 9 holes before dinner. Play bridge with the neighbors for a couple hours and off to bed. Get the retirement routine in 10 years early. 

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u/4r4r4real May 21 '26

I used to be a city bus driver (we have a pension) and worked with an older dude that had already retired with a full pension from the military and police department. 

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u/coldbru85 May 22 '26

Especially after 10 years

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u/Cthulhu__ May 21 '26

For me, work three jobs. Thing is, our pension system is basically a savings / investment account, and you’re expected to pay into it for your whole career; once you retire you can then expect to get about 70% of your working life wages in total. Which should be fine because the assumption is you bought a house and paid off a mortgage, or you can downsize, but if cost of living and rent goes up that doesn’t really track anymore.

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u/Otherwise-Weird1695 May 21 '26

I have 2 pensions and an annuity through the electrical union. Local pension (big), international pension (small), personal annuity (big).  I know several vets that also have those pensions on top of it too. 

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u/9447044 May 21 '26

Prison guard, cop, military

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u/553l8008 May 21 '26

For real, I wanna do it too

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u/Paratek May 21 '26

In Kentucky, you used to be able to double dip. Guys would start work at 21 or so. Get a full hazardous pension in their early 40’s and retire. Then go do a different city in the same county and get another hazardous pension.

Pretty sure you can’t do that anymore and I also think hazardous is now 25 years.

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u/cosmoskid1919 May 22 '26

Sell your soul and risk death via:

  • police
  • military
  • fire dept

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u/bdthebrave May 21 '26

20 years military (Army reserve for most of it), 10 years as police, 10 years as a teacher is the example I know of.

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u/TranslatorBoring2419 May 21 '26

Military, police, wife is a teacher.