Al Kraft
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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It's not funny, just strange.
I spent most of my working life supporting colleges and universities. Just at the time I chose to retire, covid happened and those who I supported are now wondering if they, themselves, have jobs to go back to. And my phone is not ringing.
I spent most of my working life supporting colleges and universities. Just at the time I chose to retire, covid happened and those who I supported are now wondering if they, themselves, have jobs to go back to. And my phone is not ringing.
That's a LONG stretch of time. I've been doing offset printing for twenty-one years and it is a slowly dying profession. No one is going to take over the watch when I finally give it up. If I can continue to procure workable ink and fountain solution concentrate, if my body holds up, and there is enough market demand (mostly public schools) for what I produce, I'll work for six more years. It will be interesting to reach the point in time where my days are spent in pursuits of my own choosing.
That's a LONG stretch of time. I've been doing offset printing for twenty-one years and it is a slowly dying profession. No one is going to take over the watch when I finally give it up. If I can continue to procure workable ink and fountain solution concentrate, if my body holds up, and there is enough market demand (mostly public schools) for what I produce, I'll work for six more years. It will be interesting to reach the point in time where my days are spent in pursuits of my own choosing.
Retirement is a time to rejoice. It is a time to re-imagine and re-think all those things you wanted to do but couldn't, because of your day job. Rich, or not so rich, if you have your health, you have the ability to enjoy your retirement and I hope you do to it's fullest extent.
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I earned my retirement. Here in the ever-more-astonishing world we agree exists (more or less), grateful to be free.
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I’ve been enjoying huffing wildfire smoke and sweltering in 90+ degree heat. And those were the high points. Thanks for asking, or sumthin’.I may want to just be found one day face down in my keyboard in my office! 89 years old!
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I’ve been enjoying huffing wildfire smoke and sweltering in 90+ degree heat. And those were the high points. Thanks for asking, or sumthin’.
Good call. I will huff wildfire smoke in 90+ degree heat before I agree to play Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphey
I collect my Iowa teacher's pension and Social Security. I like to say that the state pays me to stay away from work, and the feds pay me to stay alive.
Al Kraft
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I'm fortunate that the U.S. government now pays me simply for still being alive...although the job I did to earn that almost killed me more than once or twice!
IMO teachers more than earned their retirement and earned a lot more than we pay them during their careers. Our future is in their hands and we don;t do enough as a nation to show our support and appreciation. I truly hope that the recent COVID-19 homeschooling adventure has opened some eyes.
I would be dumbfounded at first to have all that free time on my hands. I'm sure Carey would have plenty on her list for me. I hope so because I'm not safe when I'm left alone...
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Just checking in to see if everyone is still alive and kicking!
After 42 years, I have tossed in the towel for the production audio side of our business, not a single gig for the entire year. It’s pretty clear that at our level live events will be impacted for several years or more. It’s time, but it still feels so weird. Fortunately I still have plenty of design work.
After 42 years, I have tossed in the towel for the production audio side of our business, not a single gig for the entire year. It’s pretty clear that at our level live events will be impacted for several years or more. It’s time, but it still feels so weird. Fortunately I still have plenty of design work.
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The first Zappa album I listened to closely back in the mythical age of 1971ish was the soundtrack to 200 Motels. I was not possessed of a great enough vision of my own future to grasp that I, too, would achieve 200 motels well before my retirement.
...just a thought...
Coming to the realization that the pandemic has gutted that part of your business is not the same thing as ‘throwing in the towel’. Quitters throw in the towel’. Wise women n men know when to walk away, head held high.
I wish I’d been wise enough to recognize that the wall I’d been banging my head into wasn’t going anywhere, back when I was in my early 30s!
I’m glad you still have enough work to keep you interested and vital!
Congrats to you, sir! Please keep up the design work. I find it interesting although some is over my head
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Ha! I've got you beat. It's all over my head.Congrats to you, sir! Please keep up the design work. I find it interesting although some is over my head
Ha! I've got you beat. It's all over my head.
Ha, oh, and congrats on the sale...didn't take long to spend it though
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That deal was already in the works and I came out ~$100 ahead.Ha, oh, and congrats on the sale...didn't take long to spend it though
I'm fortunate that the U.S. government now pays me simply for still being alive...although the job I did to earn that almost killed me more than once or twice!
IMO teachers more than earned their retirement and earned a lot more than we pay them during their careers. Our future is in their hands and we don;t do enough as a nation to show our support and appreciation. I truly hope that the recent COVID-19 homeschooling adventure has opened some eyes.
The EASY part of teaching high school was dealing with 180 of other people's teenagers every day. The hard part was dealing with the people who wanted to tell me how to teach.
Conversation I had once with a parent...
parent: "I've spent a lot of time in schools, and I know what a good teacher does"
me: "I've spent a lot of time on operating tables. Do I tell you how to do surgery?"
Parent: "It's not the same thing"
me: "No...you bury your mistakes. Mine send me their children."
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My teaching experience may differ in that my adult students stood to lose their job if unable to use the new infos. In practical terms it meant I couldn't lose too many, lest I find myself unemployed.
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200. Total. Man, that would have been nice. During the last 8 years of consulting work before the Motorola mothership went toes-up, I spent about 200 nights a year (!) in hotels, plus another 30+ sleeping on airplanes. Don't miss it a bit.
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