ThomasPowers Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 I turned in my resignation a few minutes ago, effective in 1 month. Lets hope my retirement will be full of forging and empty of job stress! (And that I can afford to go to Quad-State every now and then...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 I hope you enjoy your retirement as much as I'm enjoying mine. Retired in 2013 after 29 years on the job and haven't regretted it for one second. I even stopped listening to the scanner. Although every once in a while while driving with my wife, she will say OK get out of cop mode, especially if I'm taking curves a little faster than she likes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 "Alia composuerunt est." Congratulations! You may find yourself busier in retirement than in employment. I have. You may be able to even do some free lance IT work or go back to NMIMT as a highly paid consultant/contractor. No sitting in the rocking chair for any of us. GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Congrats. I hope to one day retire but it looks like i am on track for that day to be a week after my final day on this Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Hat's off to you Thomas! Good news indeed.... Now you will have plenty of time for those raised beds. If you can get out of the shop that is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lary Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Congratulations, 8 years to go for me. I have never regretted changing jobs or careers, but usually been a little nervous at the prospect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 maybe in 3 years for me. will decide when it gets closer. Congrats Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Buona fortuna! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeJustice Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Good for you. May you live long and prosper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 I asked my wife and CFO if I was doing the right thing and she said "You may be making a mistake; but we've lived through other mistakes before---do it!" Her thought was that the stress was really a killer and she would prefer to have me alive for a bit longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Griffin Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Looks like I may be forced into it. That will be ok if I can get well enough to get back to the shop. I wish you a long and heathy retirement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 Igualmente! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davor Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 At this start of a new life or lifestyle. May the winds be at your back, the dice be kind, and the Gods turn the occasional blind eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 T.P. Good News . We wish you a healthy, enjoyable, retirement, for a long time going forward. Fully retirement? I doubt it. You have too many interests, skills, and intellectual curiosity, to be doing nada. Keep the forge fires, hot and creative. Best regards, SLAG, and Marg*. * The marvellous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 Thanks for all the good wishes; I'll definitely be having to work as I have to pay off the shop loan from our savings and I will have to pay for the electricity usage too! Last month it was 14 USCents + US$16 "connect charge" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stash Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Good on you, Thomas. Are you all signed up on medicare? Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 Signed up on A&B and still trying to wade through the Advantage Plans to see which one locally might cover my diabetic needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Congratulations, but beware of retirement. If you look at the word itself Re-tired, sounds like you will be getting tired all over again. I was on track to retire at 58, but 2008 dashed those plans. Not sure when, or if I will now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share Posted February 2, 2022 The dotcom bust derailed my first thoughts of taking early retirement. Then got laid off at the next two jobs, good reviews, bad business situation, finally I am *done*. 14 years at Lucent, 9 years at NRAO, 6 years at Dell, 2 years at NMT----I don't like the progression! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Congrats Thomas. Did you get that little butterfly feeling when you signed the papers? The retirement papers were easy but the resignation was a little twitchy for me. I got over it though. . . Quickly. I discovered part time retirement jobs were great, the boss won't give you any crap because there's nothing holding you except liking the job. Let the good times BEGIN! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share Posted February 2, 2022 I've had less issues going into major surgery! Problem now is working till the roll off date: Feb 28; I'm getting a bad case of short timers. Like pointing out to someone that the machine they have problems with has a note on it saying that if you have problems contact the help desk! My calendar at work is now numbered in a countdown, both in total days and in work days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 My professional progression has gone 7,2,3,10+ No idea if/when I retire currently at 42, almost 43. Congrats. Enjoy your busy free time. And make sure to keep it busy. Rust is good on forge scrap, not in aging retirees joints and muscles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 By time you read this you'll have 26 wake ups and a bag drag. You have me thinking about my bag drag. I had my locker mostly cleared out and only had a couple things left. Stuff I used last shift. What was hard to take down were the Far Side "Frosty" cartoons the guys taped to it. Picking his carrot or nose were popular ones. I only had that locker the last 10 of my 30 year career but it was a poignant moment closing the door for the last time. Nope, I'm not misty eyed, it's all good. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Thomas - may your retirement be long and prosperous. About the only thing I really miss in retirement is some of the people I worked with, especially the ones in my dixieland band. We had a banjo, guitar, alto sax, sax, sometimes a trumpet and drummer and me on the trombone. We would practice once a week in an unused meeting room at lunch and occasionally play birthday parties or busk at a downtown park in New Orleans. Once we even busked at the Quarter. However, I have changed careers a few times and I find that it is best to break clean. The future is too interesting to let it get burdened down by the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share Posted February 2, 2022 I was doing a Demo for the Cub Scouts the day I was laid off from Lucent---it was one of those "Meet offsite; Goodbye and Security will escort you to the door" ones for a large number of people---dotcom bust. Since I was missing I had to come in and clean out my cubical with a Supervisor watching me. Well after 14 years; I had a lot of stuff built up and the Supervisor which had trusted me with a 7 billion dollar *NET* revenue stream previously told me to box everything up and call him when I was ready to go...I really missed working there; but the Dilbert Cartoons were sometimes too close to reality! (I did miss the barking----they had a massive problem with Canada Geese moving in and befouling the walk ways and chasing people. I had read about a local park using dogs to move them away so one day when I was being harassed; I started barking at them. They stopped and got a real confused look and then moved away; guess I was too crazy for them...) This will be my first major job that I have actually quit; though I did volunteer for a layoff when my younger coworker said they would like to keep the job we shared. I told our boss that I was the one being laid off and we had a very cordial move off the payroll in a couple of months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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