I dont want the game to end.

[Andrew Shadow]

A look at the "Boeing Study":

In addition to stating that it was old I should have included that I have no idea as to its accuracy or how true it is or isn't. I never researched it because it's conclusion made no difference to the planning of my future.

If it is true that it didn't come from Boeing then there is a bit of an ironic twist to how it got to me as I didn't get it off the internet. I was given this in paper form, still have it, somewhere in the mid to late ninties at a guess. It was given to me by a man who was the on-site rep and head of the area field office for a large American company for the area where I worked. The ironic part is that that company was Boeing. I wonder if he relied on it to plan his future.

 

[Sadlsor]

If 90's is 'classic' then I must be way past 'antique'!

I’m just hanging around, waiting to become prehistoric.
It’s only a matter of time.

 

[rwthomas1]

When I was in the USAF, we'd comment on how hard life was in the Air Force. Guys would retire in their forties and keel over dead a few years later. Later, I went to work at Boeing. I heard the same line, but the average age had shifted 15 years older. Guys would retire...and within 5 years be dead.

My conclusion was that for those that died early like that, they were married to their jobs. When the job left their life in retirement, they sat around waiting to die. And so they did.

Chris

You just described my father....