On 11/2/2017 4:03 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 11/1/2017 6:42 PM, cshenk wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> On 10/30/2017 8:35 PM, cshenk wrote:
>>>> Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It is difficult for then spouse and children but in different
>>>>> ways.Â* Yes, there is the worry but also having to uproot and move
>>>>> repeatedly. Children starting new schools again and again. Spouses
>>>>> having to find a new job. I had to retire from mine. And it's
>>>>> hard to find an high paying job when you have a military spouse.
>>>>> The employer knows that you might leave at any time. Most of us
>>>>> had to make do with minimum wage or worse, part time at best.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then having to make new friends, finding your way around in a new
>>>>> city, finding medical, stores, etc. Even foods could be a
>>>>> challenge.Â* Food on Cape Cod is vastly different than here. Some
>>>>> things were the same of course but many were not. Different
>>>>> brands, not much in the way of Mexican food.
>>>>
>>>> Yes. It is difficult.Â* But you had a GS hire preference higher than
>>>> a disabled Navy retired vet.Â* If you didn't know that, too bad.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Carol, the difference is Julie was not in the military.Â* I don't know
>>> if she knows or cares about military hiring preferences when it comes
>>> to grade or disability.Â* She worked at K-Mart.
>>>
>>> My mother, the military spouse, never had to work but I can sure
>>> relate to the constantly moving as a child.Â* No fun.
>>>
>>> Can't speak to the different brands thing.Â* I was a kid, not the
>>> spouse who did the shopping.Â* I do know my mother didn't look for
>>> Mexican food.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Jill, we all 'get it' that Julie was never military.Â* She lacked
>> knowlege that she might have better oppotunties as a military spouse.
>>
> Maybe she didn't want to.Â* From what I recall she worked a lot of years
> at K-Mart, long enough to be entitled to a pension (assuming they're
> still in business when she hits official retirement age).
>
> Jill

They don't have to be. When I turned 65 I was contacted by Metropolitan
Insurance. They had the pension funds from where I worked 1963 to 1970
and they went out of business in 1975. Did not even remember having a
fund back then.

I almost lost it though. When you approach 65 you get mail every day
from every insurance company that offers Medicare supplement, senior
life insurance, etc. I was about to toss the envelope with others,
unopened but I decided to look. What a nice surprise. It was not much,
but I'll take it!