What Were Our JOBS Before We RETIRED?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Today, Jim and I answer a question asked of us by many subscribers to this channel. What were our jobs before we retired?
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A lot of people that I know say they have never been busier in their lives since they retired. I believe such is the case with you and Jim. And we, your viewers, are so much better for it. Thanks a bunch.
It's weird, but very true Saykhel. I don't know how I ever had time for a full-time job all those years, lol. :-)
Aww! I didn't even know you were with someone! He seems like such a sweet person! Very happy for you both and congrats on 31 years!
Thank you so much, Jessica!
I hear you Jim…for me work has always been a means to an end…nothing more!
Steve, you and Jim did quite well not being ambitious and having fun on your channel. The both of you have over a century of job experience, professionalism and a high robust energy. Your videos are delightful and we as an audience always get pleasant trivia knowledge. Keep it going and good luck to the both of you.
Thanks, Jose, that's really nice of you to say! :-)
Retirement is great but sometimes scary!
Interesting to hear about your occupations, I think it would be interesting to hear about your followers and some of their occupations. I am a Corrections Officer in a State Prison in Virginia, with 7 years and 10 months until retirement.
Thanks for sharing with us John! That sounds like a stressful job. Hope you enjoy it. And you'll be surprised how fast almost eight years will pass by. :-)
You hit the nail on the head Steve....save save save for retirement when you are young that's what I would tell all the young people where I retired from. I told them don't be like me and work for 43 years save now and enjoy retirement at a young age.
Good advice Sara. Unfortunately, for most, saving doesn't seem important until it is too late to start doing it.
After working full time as an RN mostly in critical care for 46 yrs I was thrilled to call it quits. Although my full retirement age was 66 based on my birthrate I hung it up at 65 as soon as I got my Medicare card. The amount of difference in my pensions from 65- 66 just wasn't worth considering. My last boss didn't think I would go. She is still working even though she is 5 yrs older. Best decision I ever made.🙂
That's awesome Debra! My younger brother retired at 55 and loves it. If it makes sense financially why not retire as early as you can. We never know how long we have so why work until you drop? Glad you are enjoying your retirement. Jim and I are too!
Steve you’re natural at this great personality great content thanks for your channel!
Thanks, so much, Betty!
Thanks to your reply, Steve, I’m now subscribe to both channels.🙋🏻♀️my son is also a CPA. he was taking the exams while in grad school & then the pandemic hit. He did it though. He pass all 4 parts on the first try. ☺️
Thanks for subscribing, Maryann. And congrats to your son. That is awesome!
Great video--it really provides insight into the work you do on your other channel. Hopefully you won't completely retire and terminate your channels for a long while.
One of the reasons I started this channel is so I could easily do it for the rest of my life. Or as long as I'm able to hold my camera, lol. :-) The other channel is a lot of traveling and I'm sure I will do less in coming years.
Thanks Steve and Jim I hope you 🙏 both have a wonderful blessed day my friends
Thank you David and you too!
Hope you both are enjoy life everyday be safe.
We are. Hope you are too Jada!
I am retired too. I worked for wells Fargo bank in calfornia and Arizona and east grand forks minnesota at my first bank. About 37 years and another 2 years at another place then i retired at 62. I have social security now and retired life insurance. My job at the bank was i worked at a machine wirh deposits checks cash back and cash in papers. Made sure when people deposited something at the bank with a teller that it was added right and all the checks were there if a problem we wrote up a slip with reasons why. Then put item in machine to balance the transaction. i also ran big back to back items like a debit and credit for 1 million dollars sometimes and it had to be checked by higher ups that it was correct. Seeing those big single transactions always got me nervous. Hope you understand what i did. Near the end in 2013 they got a machine to do my job so I was let go with others. I can still remember that. I did that job right from high school. Sorry to go on and on. I enjoyed your video.😮
Thanks for sharing with us Sally. Sadly, lots of jobs keep being replaced by robots. :-(
Steve, I always thought you were a artist doing painting or sculptures. Then I wondered if you were a photographer. Thanks for letting us know what you both really did for a living.
Photo Journalism was my true love and I guess it sort of morphed into these TH-cam channels. Thanks for the comment, Sue!
Always a good time . With your videos. Thanks Steve and Jim. You guys are great
Hi,new here,congratulations on your retirement!Keep up the great work 👍💯
Thanks and thanks for watching, Criscos! I just checked out your channel and I really like your short videos. I need to make mine a lot shorter.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve definitely!Short vids can really help your channel 👍💯
I'm with Jim on retirement! 5 months for me and I don't miss it at all! Work is overrated,but is necessary to achieve your goals.
LOL, in retrospect, I agree with you both! :-)
Enjoy!
You're honest Steve about the advertising revenue. That's why people are attracted to your YT videos. Open and honest dialogue by you is why your channel is popular. I'm looking for more 'dream team' videos from you and Scott-on-Tape. Perhaps you would consider vlogs for the Tall Trees in Northern California, Big Sur, the San Diego Zoo and Naval port, 29 Palms, Knotts Berry Farm or the BART system in San Francisco. Just some ideas for you as it is understood you are Californiacentric.
Hi John, I did a Knotts Berry Farm video on my other channel last year. They have a cemetery in this theme park, lol. :-) It was one of my favorite videos. I will definitely be getting back up to San Francisco in the future, but most of the videos on this channel will be in and around Palm Springs. Mostly just local day in the life vlogs. Thanks for watching!
Hi Steve. I really enjoy your vlogs. I listen to both of them a few times a week. Your presentation and subject matter is excellent. Thanks for providing these you tube channels for us to enjoy.
Thanks P. So glad you like them!
Thanks for sharing your experience and life with me! Stay blessed my dear friends! Great video thanks!
Thank you Sylvia! You too!
Very very awesome. Thanks for sharing you guys.
Thanks for watching Lisa!
thanks guys. enjoy your work. JDR
Thanks, Jim!
You guys rock!! Love your channel!!
Thanks so much, Shelly! :-)
Hello Steve and Jim. Ha....I have obviously not started your video library from the beginning. Congrats to you both for successful careers! That is really really awesome. And, it is cool that you both have different strengths; I'd think that should complement each other really well.
My mentors in the service always told me "you'll know when it is time" to retire. And...though I didn't feel like that was the case, even when I was like 5 years out, it definitely became true in the end! I got to the point that I only enjoyed the challenges of our combat deployments, which I began to feel was kind of weird. So, I hung it up. And then I bridged over to a completely different career after retiring from the service.
As I've eluded previously, I'm 55 now and was kind of planning to retire at 60. I'm guessing that will need to be adjusted a bit now with our newly acquired place in Palm Springs. The interest rate is horrible; it was like the worst time to buy something. But, I'll work to either refinance or recast the loan to get my monthly payment back down to a normal level; and then could retire and just continue paying the mortgage with my retirement. In theory, at least hehehehe.
It sounds like you have really thought it through and are in a good position to retire when you are ready. That's awesome!
Love your videos! Do you watch Palm Spring Cindy? Love the area, coming out I February, would love to meet you & Steve. I don’t mind the ads at all, besides You Tube is free. What more could you ask for!
Hi Janet, no, I haven't heard of her. If you see us out and about, definitely say hi and be in a video! :-) Thanks!
Steve and Jim I really enjoy your videos!! I think you guys are very sweet couple!! I also am a big fan of your grave site channel! Could you visit john Denver and his mom and dad's grave site? I know JD doesn't have a grave site. His ashes were scattered up in the rocky MTS!! Thanks so much-jacki illenye
Awesome! Thank you Jacki! JD is one of my all-time favorites. If I get to Colorado I definitely will!
Omg you have the least amount of ads I’ve seen. Some channels have them every few minutes and they’re long and there’s more than 1 in an ad break! I’ve never had an issue with your ads and try to let them play as much as possible. When I was in high school, I took accounting classes and some law classes and figured I’d be an accountant or a lawyer. Turns out I didn’t like school anymore after high school, so I did neither! Lol. 😂 But I don’t think I’d have guessed either of those occupations for you guys.
Hi LisaMarie, thanks for the feedback on the ads. I'm really surprised that anyone is even interested in what our jobs were before we retired, lol :-) I find it funny that it's the most popular video on our new channel, so far. :-) Guess you never know what people are interested in.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve that is so true! I love learning about people and finding out what makes them tick. Everyone says “you are not your job” but knowing what a person’s job is/was can tell you a lot about them. As a single mom, I delivered pizza for many years so I could work part time and make full time money, due to tips. That way I could be home w my kids since I had no one to help me. Now I consider myself a professional driver, even though I’m retired and home all the time. 😂
I didn't know you had a second channel. I subscribed because your videos are a joy in an era of sadness.
Thanks RLP, that's so nice to hear! :-)
Hey to Jim👋👋👋
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You two are just the cutest couple. Stay Safe
LOL, thanks, Teena and you too! :-)
I always wondered what you did for a living, so thanks for this video. Second, I saw someone asked about your coming out. I look forward to that video.
Thanks for the reminder. We will definitely do our coming out videos at some point.
lol I never knew what your job was now I know why I gravitated towards you you are a creative person 😂😂so fun to know now ❤😂
Thanks, Jackie 😄👍
Luv ya both. Thanks
Thanks, Penny! :-)
Interesting vlog! Thanks for sharing more about your lives.
Thanks for watching, Julia!
Thanks for making these videos!! 😍😍 subscribed
Glad you like them, V and thanks for subscribing!
I have a family premium account. No ads.
Recently, had to take some time off so I caught up with your cool videos.
Thanks for sharing.
I don’t know if premium accounts work for you. I always give it a like so that keeps your videos in my algorithm.
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Hi Ven, likes are very important in helping TH-cam channels so thank you! 😄👍
@@theretiredlifewithsteve oh, I thought it was funny about previous jobs. I am a retired CPA in the the OC too! 😆(and game player)
Thanks Steve and Jim Kind of jealous only 50 so I have a few more years before I could retire lol
Don't rush is, Kenny. It will be here before you know it! :-)
I worked for forty two years as a nurse and retired at 62. Never looked back.
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Enjoy your retirement Steve&Jim. I can’t wait to retire.
Thanks David. It will be here before you know it! :-O
I know what you mean Steve.. I keep moving my retirement date all the time.. lol.. I was supposed to retire 2 years ago and then I said for sure I would retire this December (2022), but that is probably not going to happen.. I love my job and love the people I work with.. Have had my job for 32 years now..
You are very fortunate to love your job and co workers. Why not enjoy it as long as you can Reid!
Very best wishes lads , we don't retire in this life you just work on other things...regards from Ireland
LOL, so true, dave!
Every Gas Station Attendant is in the pre-retired mode right now!
I saw the vid where you mentioned the new channel name and the separation because some subs were freaking out. I just didn't realize it required a separate subscription which I just signed up for. I suspect a lot of your supporters haven't gotten the memo yet since I'm only subscriber 330.
Hi Bill, thanks for subscribing. Gay day in the life vlog channels, especially about old gay people, usually get very few subscribers. I'll be surprised if we ever get more than 500 subs, but that's ok. Just doing it as a hobby. :-)
@@theretiredlifewithsteve Well if it gets Jim out of the house, that will be a bonus. And who knows, I'll bet you didn't think the other channel would get 60k subs either.
I'm like you Steve. I always say I'm going to work till I drop. Lol
Oh, there you are. Couldn't find your second channel
Sorry Greg! Glad you found it! :-)
Going to try and keep TH-cam as a hobby! As your starting your second TH-cam channel!! 🤣🤣 By the way, there were only 2, 6 second commericials at the beginning of the video, and none in the middle. So I don't know what their complaining about. I imagaine you get about $10 or $12 per thousand views. Seems pretty standard for a vlog style video. Gaming is less, finance and business is more. Did I get close??
Hi Scrapcash2, TH-cam does not allow you to monitize your channel until you have at least 1,000 subscribers and at least 4,000 hours of view time per month. So, this channel does not make any money from advertising and probably never will. All revenue from ads on this channel go 100 percent to TH-cam. On my other channel I do make money from ads, but I've never calculated it. I've heard that it averages less than a penny per ad view. BUT all advertisers pay different amounts, depending on the channel, the video, etc. I don't even know if Adsense calculates it so you know how much revenue you get per video. They just email the revenue each month, with no breakdown or way to calculate it. Now you've made me curious. I will have to go to their site and see if there is a way to figure it out.
I’m hoping to retire in 4 years. I’m so ready.
That's great Cat Mom. Four years will be here in the blink of an eye!
Hi Steve and Jim : question, how did both of you come out to your families and what was the reaction
Hi Tanya, great question. We are planning to do a video sharing our coming out stories soon. Thanks for asking!
Gas & hotels are a lot more than 5 years ago! It's expensive!
I agree, Mike. Traveling is getting more expensive every day!
I agree it’s getting expensive for you! I m glad about some TH-cam channels making retirement life fun😍
I'm with Jim I was not born to work, I was born to be a housewife and mother.
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Steve will you draw a memorial for me? For my son?
Hi Rosemarie, I wasn't that kind of a graphic designer. That would be an illustrator. If you want to me photos and or videos and a write up of his story, I might be able to make and share a memorial video here. I was very moved by his story when you shared it with me a year or so ago on my other channel. If you are interested let me know is a new comment and I'll give you a contact email. Thanks!
I’m going to retire end of this year(2022) from Los Angeles County
Congrats Molly. Hope you enjoy retirement as much as Jim and I do.
I have Premium............NO Ads! Totally worth it!!!
Steve I thought you were a real estate agent as well (in the recent past)?
Hi Todd, yes, I was. You have a good memory. That was my second career. LOL, I guess TH-cam is my 3rd, or retirement career. :-)
I’m just seeing this video, and even though you made this one two years ago I have a question about the advertising. Do you make the same amount of money from the advertising if the add is a minute or less or more? I don’t mind the adds and I usually just do something different while they are playing as I know the importance of them for you, but come on really the ads that are several minutes longer than the actual video content is a little bit much. So I am asking do TH-camrs lose money on my deleting those long play ads?
Hi country boy, I didn’t know that TH-cam had long ads in these videos. I watch hundreds of TH-cam videos every week at the ads I see are usually just 5 to 10 seconds long. Sometimes there are two of them but I’ve never seen a long ad like you do with regular TV. Are you seeing really long ads on my videos? I sure hope not. If you are feel free to click pass them. TH-cam doesn’t breakdown what we make on advertising per ad. We just got paid a lump sum at the end of each month and we have no idea how many ads ran or how much we got paid for each ad. And every advertiser pays different amounts depending on the ad and depending on the channel where they place the ads. So I have no idea how many ads are running on my videos or how much I make from each of them. TH-cam doesn’t break it down for us, as far as I know. So, if the ads are annoying feel free to click past them when you can. 👍
Steve thanks for your answering my question as I do get those long ads. Most are like you said 15 to 20 seconds. The ones that longer (up too two minutes I just turn down the volume and play solitaire. The really long ones I skip over unless they grab my attention. Ive I don’t think that I’ve had an extremely long one with your channels. I normally watch both if they are short ones, and at times most the under two minutes ones as I knew that you earned revenue. However I shall not feel guilty now for not watching the extremely long adds on my favorite channels. Just know that your very much appreciated, and I enjoy seeing you with Jim, and your adventures in the many cemeteries across the country.
& Jim added back to the channel?
LOL, for now anyway! :-)
my job is bieng a mom...lol
"Retired People of the World UNTIE" 🤫 "Work is Highly Overrated"
LOL, so true Bazerkly!! :-)
How are you?
I’m good, thanks
Lady Luck HQ makes $40,000 a month from TH-cam. That kind of money blows my mind but she works really hard at it.
Wow, I don't know who that is, but she must be doing something pretty special. :-)
@@theretiredlifewithsteve She does slot videos, has a very loyal following who watch her entire videos which usually run 15 to 20 minutes. She put out a video showing the break down of funds received from TH-cam, very interesting.
I’m a nurse and I have hated every day of it dont know at this point in life what else to do
OMG, so sorry to hear that, Robert. It has to be one of the most difficult and stressful jobs anyone can do. Especially in this past year or so. Hopefully you can take some joy out of know that you are helping lots of people in their extreme time of need!
@@theretiredlifewithsteve coming from a gentleman as yourself thank you
What was your brothers job?
I have five brothers. They all have different jobs.
I try to watch the ads yet some are so embarrassing what they about it's man I can't do it or the music they pick makes you go yikes. Alot of the time I mite phone till it ends then turn sound on so I can hear you.
Thanks for doing that Dorothy and thanks for the feedback. I never see the ads, so I didn't know they were embarrassing. Sorry about that.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve have you seen the ball enlargement ad at all that on all your videos?😂😂 Oh my name not Dorothy it's Dorothea.😹😹
@@dorotheawalker7985 Hi Dorothea, OMG, how bizarre! No, I haven't seen any ads on this channel. TH-cam does not allow TH-camrs to have ads on their channels until they have over 1,000 subscribers. Which I will probably never have on this channel :-) So, thanks, but no need to watch these ads. I don't receive a penny from them. They are placed by YT and YT makes all the money. I had no idea they were placing sexual ads like that. Especially ironic since they will not let creators have ads on videos they consider to be sexual in nature! Talk about a double standars, LOL :-)
Do you make good money from TH-cam?
Hi Tim, LOL, definitely not. TH-cam does not allow you to even monitize your videos with ads until you have 1,000 subscribers and at least 4,000 views per month. I'm not sure this channel will ever get 1,000 viewers, lol. :-) Any ads you see now, TH-cam is getting 100 percent of the revenue. If we ever do get ads on this channel, you just make a few pennies per ad view, so you don't make much unless you have a channel that gets hundreds of thousands of views per month. If you get millions of views you can make good money on TH-cam, but this isn't the kind of channel to ever do that. I was referring to my other channel, that does make money from ads. It's not a lot, but does help pay for gas and hotels to make the trips I make on the other channel, Visiting Gravesites With Steve. I plan to make a video about this topic at some point.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve thank you for the info. Always wondered how it worked.
I have started a journey which can improve retired life. You are right making it to keep us healthy and active!! 😍
The majority of baby boomers will not retire and work till we drop dead, lol. I plan on doing that, I started working at age 16 or 17 and always had a job till the pandemic. After I feel safe and infection rates come down here in south Florida, next year I hope, I'll return to the job force and work temp jobs. I wanted to be safe about it because I don't want to make my partner sick since he's older. I'll reassess my life again at age 65. I like working, there are places I don't like working at, LOL. It will keep me busy mentally and physically. I workout 5 days a week and enjoy it as much as I enjoy working in general.