Quote Originally Posted by Patrick View Post
Seems like we have an awful lot of recent education graduates coming out of our universities looking for work in other states. The problem is that once these young teachers move away...they aren't coming back. Michigan seems to be graduating a lot of brainpower, yet cannot seem to hold onto it. I wonder if it would be effective to have some sort of mandatory retirement age just so that we can get the younger teachers in the dooor. It should be 40 years of service and then you are given the boot.
Sounds like you are nowhere near retirement, Patrick. I would love to retire at the very instant I become eligible to do so, but I really don't see how I will be able to afford it.
And, not to thread-jack, but once the majority of my generation reaches the age where we should be able to collect Social Security, not only does that collection sound unlikely, I half-way expect that, instead of a check, they will issue an invoice.