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mellowtigger| year | taxed SS earnings | job description |
| 1986 | 3,050 | college. tried co-op programming at IBM. tried part-time jobs. discovered i was no good at work and school simultaneously. |
| 1987 | 6,376 | |
| 1988 | 3,878 | |
| 1989 | 4,008 | |
| 1990 | 2,518 | |
| 1991 | 6,266 | escaped school. temp job for nearly a year. |
| 1992 | 14,264 | started a night job as mainframe operator. averaged one promotion every 7 months. eventually left at highest grade of mainframe programmer (without having to become a supervisor). |
| 1993 | 18,583 | |
| 1994 | 19,614 | |
| 1995 | 22,966 | |
| 1996 | 25,952 | |
| 1997 | 31,877 | |
| 1998 | 38,838 | |
| 1999 | 42,270 | mainframe programmer. also made switch to unix operating system. wrote a few bash shell scripts to replace mainframe jcl. wrote a small c program to deliver email. dabbled in java support. got some great raises until the last 2 years when plans were in place to shut down my platform and get rid of the old programmers. |
| 2000 | 50,676 | |
| 2001 | 60,060 | |
| 2002 | 62,772 | |
| 2003 | 62,988 | |
| 2004 | 18,245 | various tech support jobs. want to retrain for a new career, but there'd be the same old simultaneous work/school problem. my theory is that this part-time schedule might work, if i can just accumulate the necessary money. |
| 2005 | 22,063 | |
| 2006 | 22,586 | |
| 2007 | 20,305 | |
| 2008 | 13,000 (?) |
If I retire at age 62, I get $859/month.
If I retire at age 70, I get $1512/month.
If I become disabled today, I get $1535/month.
Except that I won't live to 70. I don't expect to live to 62 either. And I don't even want to see the paperwork necessary for a declaration of disability (of any variety).If I retire at age 70, I get $1512/month.
If I become disabled today, I get $1535/month.
It's a little disturbing to think that I'd be taking home more money on disability than with my job. I remember being slightly angry back around 1989 when I saw old people on tv complaining about how little money they received from social security. Angry not on their behalf, mind you. I was angry that they were shown living in better conditions than I did. I was angry that they were taking my scarce money to live a better life than I had. I don't expect to see any of the dollars that I've paid to social security over the years. Meh. Such is life.