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What is your biggest achievement in life?
Surviving, 40 years with a Jewish wife!
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Restraint..... Lots of restraint.
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Doug calling me the #1 Chess Champion on the 15k thread. I'll take that to my grave.
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Biggest accomplishment in life. Well I have accomplished a lot but this one is probably it.
Retiring quite comfortably, without a college education at age 55. Proving out that common sense and hard work will take you a long ways! Now 78 and in spite of all the politicians trying to **** up things, still quite comfortable! |
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Being able to improvise when only option is single-ply
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Finding the right girl, convincing her to marry me, making the hard decision to move to a better place before our kids began school, and raising two successful adults that hate Democrats as much as I do.
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Being totally self-taught, having never paid any "professional" for investment advice, I have substantially more income during retirement than I did when working -- most of it is from my bond/stock portfolio; SS is a minor player. (I was a moldmaker, self-employed from 1985-2021). More than half of the income it kicks off gets reinvested. It's all interest and some divvies, I don't have to sell any securities. Most of the thanks goes to my late dad, from whom I learned to live frugally. Living below your means is the key. |
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I haven't killed anyone.............yet.
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Not having killed anyone just because they're incredibly stupid.
Trust me, it's a struggle |
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Against all odds, enlisted and served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. Within that time, I served three years working in American Embassy security. Two years as a Drill Instructor. Went to combat three times. Up to this day, I will never understand or accept how come I got blown up four times and not even a scratch, only a ringing ear, now tinnitus.
One day I was going out with a logistic convoy, and right when I was going to climb, I got this feeling on my chest and didn't go. This was the hummer Attachment 86224 |
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Clearing up maybe some minor confusion from my previous post: I am NOT a self-taught moldmaker -- which was my career from 1968-2021 -- I learned from numerous German and Austrian >(the best) moldmakers who owned the small job shops I worked at. That's where the real work gets done; the big Blue Chip companies would quickly collapse without job shops. I am a self-taught investor. |
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Grew up working with my businessman father. Remember that was all pre computer era, getting the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, other sources Benn doing/playing the market by myself for a long time (Circa 1978) My favorite saying about the market is ''You got to have a cast iron stomach''! |
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