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Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts) Mon Jul 16, 2012, 10:29 AM Jul 2012

things I would do retroactively

somehow retiring would not make the top of my list

1) have one more child
2) "gamble" knowing the winning outcome
3) delay buying a home (which went underwater)
4) change my investments so that I didn't take a bath in the market in 2000-2002 and again in 2007-2009.
5) take better care of my families health
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things I would do retroactively (Original Post) Fresh_Start Jul 2012 OP

Go back to November 2000 and Al Gore would be our President. Tennessee Gal Jul 2012 #1

I would retroactively been born in 1945 so I could get on Medicare and collect S.S. canoeist52 Jul 2012 #2

I did some stuff retroactively. Igel Jul 2012 #3

Tennessee Gal

(6,160 posts)

1. Go back to November 2000 and Al Gore would be our President.

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Mon Jul 16, 2012, 10:33 AM

Jul 2012

canoeist52

(2,282 posts)

2. I would retroactively been born in 1945 so I could get on Medicare and collect S.S.

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Mon Jul 16, 2012, 10:41 AM

Jul 2012

Igel

(35,270 posts)

3. I did some stuff retroactively.

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Mon Jul 16, 2012, 01:11 PM

Jul 2012

Withdrew from some courses in grad school.

Was admitted to a degree program a year after I started taking courses.

Even managed to approve voluntary leave almost 3 years after the guy was forced on leave and then his announced retirement a year after the guy's contract ended. Now that was sweet--he got to be on voluntary leave and then retired, and got back pay for the nearly 3 years when we thought he was on forced administrative leave without pay. Silly us. (Then again, the board signed off on it.)

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