Starting Over. I mean really over.

[m21sniper]

Sure, anyone that wants to come crash on my sofa if they for some bizarre reason decided to vacation in Philly...absolutely...

Just give me a little advanced notice.

[Rick V]

Can I bring my guns?

[m21sniper]

I would prefer it if you did. I love guns.

[john70t]

Really starting over? Sweetened hot sauce. You can eat anything(i.e. Leningrad).

Other than that, a few kind words and synchronicity should be good enough.

[scottmandue]

How about a male escort service? Someone has to "entertain" the rich guys wifes and/or GF's while they are throwing away their money in the casinos.

[RKC]

Feel I have to give both practical and not so practical advice.....

Practical Advice: Head to Australia - lots of room to live, and, if you want to, room to live cheaply. Lots of good people, good universal health care, decent job prospects. Was most recently there in October, best friend from HS lives there full time. As surely as our frontier is closed, theirs is still open just a bit. Still possibilities there that don't exist in a fully settled country like ours. It is America, only more so....

Need to get by for 4 years until you can take Social Security & Medicare to provide a base, and it's a good place to get a job since it is the only big economy not to take it on the chin in the past few years, and you are exotic in the way an Aussie or Brit is here in the US....

The Bigger Picture Advice: When settled physically, go out somewhere, rest in an empty & silent area, and then spend some long evenings reading philosophy or history or poetry, or novels with a feel like that of the Razor's Edge or Siddartha, and figure out what/where/when you really want.....

I'll bet the next step will be clear before too long....

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

How about a male escort service? Someone has to "entertain" the rich guys wifes and/or GF's while they are throwing away their money in the casinos.

I have put serious thought into this in the past. I just couldn't get past the fat chicks. I could do ugly chicks with good bodies. But not fat chicks.

I like fat chicks about as much as Little Bill Daggett likes assassins.

AUS would be completely out for me. Too anti-gun. I would need to live somewhere where i could keep my spoons.

[Racerbvd]

I know where a good deal on a bar is, buy that, live & party there

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Emigrating to Australia is rather difficult, actually. I checked into it about 5 or 6 years ago. Sure it's easy to visit, but to actually move/live/work there it's pretty tricky, at least that's based on the research I did.

[m21sniper]

And you can't have guns. AUS is a definite non-starter.

[RKC]

To emigrate anywhere takes paperwork. But you are at an advantage in that Australians desire your skills, your education, and your national background. And you can have many types of guns....

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by TerryBPP

I would consider flying rich docs and others in their own cesna's back in forth from wherever. I know there is still a decent market down here for that. Most that I know are low maintenance and easy going. Cake job for $100/hr.

First off Michael has been WAY above the Cessna market for a long time. Flying Gulfstreams and Challengers they hire you by the day, week or month if its short term. Starts at $1500 A DAY for what I fly and assume that his is a bit less than that but not by much.

Doctors can be very easy to work for or absolute a$$wipes. With todays market things are lots more difficult than it was a year ago.

Bill (sniper) when I was referring to him "starting new" it was as a pilot in Alaska, which would be something TOTALLY different from what he has been doing for years. A lot more hands on but a lot of fun.

In the end IMHO he needs to find something fun and something that he likes, and hopefully something that pays pretty well. Starting over as a beach bum might be fun but the pay aint gonna make it, especially for a guy 10 years away from retirement looking to stash some bucks.

Joe

[dewolf]

Originally Posted by RKC

To emigrate anywhere takes paperwork. But you are at an advantage in that Australians desire your skills, your education, and your national background. And you can have many types of guns....

That's true. And yes you can have guns. Certain types have been outlawed, such as military automatic weapons etc, but you can have handguns, rifles etc. Sure it's a lot of crap to get em, but you can.
The reason I mentioned the RFDS was I know a pilot who flew commercial for thirty years and them went to the RFDS. He loves it. They get priority over all over aircraft, and like he said, "I save peoples lives every week. I also volunteer for Angel Flight and get to help sick people get to their treatment. very rewarding".

[FastDave]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

I have put serious thought into this in the past. I just couldn't get past the fat chicks. I could do ugly chicks with good bodies. But not fat chicks.

I like fat chicks about as much as Little Bill Daggett likes assassins.

AUS would be completely out for me. Too anti-gun. I would need to live somewhere where i could keep my spoons.

I'm with YOU 100% on this one !!! I tried dating a really sweet, well-off, sincere chick who was FAT !!! I couldn't get past it.

[McLovin]

Originally Posted by FastDave

I couldn't get past it.

Couldn't you at least push it to the side?

[Rufblackbird]

Originally Posted by McLovin

Couldn't you at least push it to the side?

or lift it up out of the way? or just turn her around so she's on her knees, and just close your eyes?

I think it would really depend on your meaning of "fat"...

[McLovin]

That's the spirit!

[81turboporsche]

i would search resorts in the caribbean islands see if a position is open for a pilot and start from their, live in paradise for the later years, enjoy a tan, beautiful women and everything else will fall into place

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[Superman]

I've heard the women in Romania are breathtaking.

Still......hard to compete with sugar-white sand and azure-blue water. I wonder how long it would take to get formally kicked out of Tahiti. If you guys can get me there, I can do the research.