I hate that when they say oh we have the time to listen lol, the first thing that screwed up my retirement was a divorce and paying child support for 3 kids for about 17 years, was able to put money away for about the last 5 years or so, to little to late. What screwed up my savings was car repairs and my deductible for the 4 surgeries I had, nothing major but had 6 months or so of therapy. Then the last year or so my oldest daughter had stage 4 Cervical cancer and helped her with that, she beat the cancer and is cancer free but had surgery to put a collection bag in her because her bladder was ruined, so I helped her with all that and now she is on the road to recovery, had to spend a lot of money on her, not going to get into a lot of details about that. Now as far as buying a $70,000 pickup that's not going to happen unless I win a lottery. I'm pretty frugal with spending, learned to do that when paying child support. Depending what happens the next 2-3 years if everything turned out okay, I would maybe buy a newer suv. So there ya have it, that's why I have to do some truckin' again.
Retired, question.
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Idk why you wouldn’t get back in a truck. The hours are as short as they’ve ever been, modern trucks are more comfortable than they’ve ever been, traffic drives the safest it ever has, and dispatchers are the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Ok I started to stretch it a bit at the last.
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