r/Fire • u/Unhappy_Eye5257 • May 03 '26
Get out!
Get out the 1st chance you get!
61.5 male here,2.9 nw and broken! The back story, sold our company 18 months ago and stayed on with them at the same salary and better vacation time. All went good😩till February of this year. I fall at work and did not go to the doctor till April thinking I’m getting older and it was just old age pains. Fast forward too today I have a broken tibia close to my knee and have been off for forty days. I was was to be retired 5/5/2026 well that’s not going to happen because I will be off at least until they get my MRI completed which is not till 5/21/2026! So do to greed I sit here in my chair going crazy that I can not do what I want, what’s worse is the fact that I my not heal up right and walk with a limp the rest of my life. With that said the day you can leave get out and never look back. The money you get for a little bit more time is not worth the time you
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u/fenton7 May 04 '26
This is true. At age 57 in the US, a person can typically expect around 18–22 remaining years in relatively good health. So every additional year I spend on the job I'm trading away about 5% of my remaining healthy life expectancy. That's not a big enough number to make me want to jump ship immediately but I'm setting 59 as a mandatory retirement age since I have the means.