I don't know people's ages in here but I always thought I would never go back to working for a company, let alone a municipality. As I got older and began to not recuperate as fast and thought of where I'd be say at 60, I decided to get out and start the next chapter. I looked down the road at retirement, something I would think comes early to people in this line of work. Are any of the diehards prepared for the fact that retirement will come some day? And what do we all really have then? Older equipment worth something but probably not too much and savings. Have we all saved as much as we'll all need in retirement? That's why I got out of the private. Too scary for me. Needed security.