Who all works in the power industry???

Same here, I am out at 50. 6 years and 3 months to go. ~2280 days left.

 

Enjoy the great pay and the youth. You’ll be 50 in a blink of an eye.

I started at 27 years old. I did buy 9 years of service credit so I could retire a little early and closer to the other half. She works for the same organization, and will retire at 50-52 years old, since she is a bit younger than I am.

 

Oh fuck that. Resume time.
I guess the good thing is you can invest your own money the way you want.

My employer doesn’t do 401k matching, and that sucks enough for me to not encourage people to apply.

 

We have minimum run times. Every time we close the breaker, it needs to run for a minimum of 32 hours before it hits our Long Term Service Agreement....and hard. This month I had a trip on a frozen compressor bleed valve at 2340 rpm, so I wasn’t even self sustaining yet, tripped the turbine. That partial start cost us 3 starts total/or 53.5 run hours at base load on our Factored Fired Hours calculator.

Interesting to hear about different utilities and how business is done.