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Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: The elixir of life

Posted onJune 17, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is the substance we expunge necessarily the opposite of the positive? Does the mere fact of expiation denote that which is unwanted, or merely no longer of utility? In ancient times, an elixir was considered to be a substance of great desirability; it possessed multiple meanings, including a reference to that substance which was used in alchemy to alter base-metals into the gleaming riches of the natural order found deep beneath the chasms of the earth – gold. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: The mud of life

Posted onJune 13, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The mud of life is the stuff of movies; we can romanticize it, serialize it into a best-selling paperback novel (skipping over the formality of a hardback in order to sell to the masses), and even turn it into a weekly television series; but in the end, what it means is that we are stuck in a rut at a gas station in the middle of a desolate desert with no money and no prospects. That is the metaphor of the phrase itself; there is little hope and even a fewer scintilla of a possibility of a potentiality to hope; many times removed, the mud of life is that period that we all hit now and again, where movement forward will never occur, and misery is the fated future forever and a day, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Preparation subverting the moment

Posted onFebruary 13, 2017January 10, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

“Seize the moment” (or the day) – isn’t that the mantra of modernity? Never let consequences or the hurt of others delay the enigmatic <a title=”The little pleasures in life” href=”https://fersdisability.com/federal-employee-disability-retirement-the-little-pleasures-in-life/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>pleasures</a> of bodily delights. Forget results; ignore preparatory steps, as that would waste valuable time otherwise left for delectable dalliances. […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS: Clueless

Posted onFebruary 11, 2017January 26, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We are, for the most part, clueless in most things. Those very limited subjects of which we are deemed an “expert” or having some partial knowledge about, are merely one in a million, and so we walk around thinking highly of ourselves, yet clueless in 99.9% of everything else. Fortunately, there is no criminal statute that can be imposed upon being clueless. Life is complex enough without having to acknowledge that we walk about without any real idea as to how to tackle the problems; but as braggadocio wins the day for most people, […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: Character

Posted onJanuary 31, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

If a person points to another and states, “He is really a character”, is it different from positing: “He really has character”? Can both statements mean the same, or is the subtle difference there to denote? The former is customarily stated in defining a person as somewhat of an oddball, or perhaps eccentric to a degree that places him outside of the conventional norms of acceptable conduct. The latter, on the other hand, could also mean that – the possession of it modified by the adverb describes one with a plenitude of extraordinary traits. Or, it could connote the more classical meaning: A worthy person of honor, dignity, courage, moral foundation, etc. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Knowing where to stop

Posted onJanuary 24, 2017February 13, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

In life, it is often just as important in knowing where one is going, as it is to recognizing where to stop. We all know the individual with “a mission” – always self-confident, never tentative, and rarely pausing to catch one’s breath except to regain one’s composure before blindly forging ahead with uninterrupted fortitude and resolve. Military men and women are like that; born leaders and megalomaniacs follow suit; […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Leaving that legacy behind

Posted onJanuary 7, 2017February 3, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We hear about it from ‘high-end achievers’; and every President now builds large temples to themselves, like some Greek gods with immortal canopies and call them “libraries” for the common minion to think that it is like those warm and fuzzy buildings we once visited in order to escape the ravages of our sordid childhoods. Perhaps it is the realization of that which has come back to haunt us: Darwinism, pure materialism, and the abandonment of faith in hobbits, gnomes and angels from beyond, that leaves us with the stark nakedness of our own mortality, and the need to fulfill that vacancy by building lasting memorials that only crumble with the decadence of time. […] Read More …