You short yourself. I can assure you that I could never do that job. I could never handle all those orders, remembering who wants what, stand on my feet for 8 hours a pop, and putting up with people giving me a hard time for making a single mistake. No ma'am, if you did that for 10 years you should have been halfway to retirement off of that. So the question becomes: If someone had offered you a retirement after 25 years would you have stayed a waitress?