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It not a lot, I think currently like 14-15k a year before ss become taxable but it been awhile since I looked at all that stuff, lots of info on SS site, mygov.com. or whatever it is. State income tax may play in as well. Whether retirement contributions were pre or post tax Ira's may also be a factor with rmd's and such. Being on SSD some it applies to me and some doesn't for me. Big misconception you can't work in another capacity on ssd.You're only as old you feel. I'm not sure I could fully retire if my I was still on top of my game. There's definitely stuff I would turn down though.
It's been a while since I looked at it, but I seem to recall that over a certain income social security is taxed pretty heavily. You might want to look into that.
Being in his shoes it would be only be on my terms. Might get up one day and want to say scew -it I'm going fishing or spending afternoon with a loved one, whatever. Once you obligate that's all gone. I've been in "I'll let you use my shop situations" It always ends returning favors with no hope of being on the winning side of things. You're the best tech I have, I don't trust the others, would you do me a favor, look at and take of my wife's car Saturday or Sunday while you're here? type crap.
2-3 days a week to handle some non back-breaking overflow work. I'm not doing in chassis cylinder head jobs etc. kind of thing. Shop foreman/work dispatcher Qc guy. etc.
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These days the writer needs to write a few things, get the job in(committed), and off to the tech it goes for further diagnostics/teardown, and then bigger bill. They don't need a high dollar knowledgeable front man that oversells it and loses the job. Dealerships usually pay writers base salary + monthy sales commission. It's a different industry these days, and writers make decnt money for the little they know. Thats what you're competing against for basically a sales position, unfortunately. Normally like a 40-45k base and some small percentage of sales in these auto busy upscale-ish metro areas around here.
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