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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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When you do something very well, have done it successfully for a long time, when you know more than most folks within the industry that you are working with, and when they respect you... work can become an awful lot of fun because you are no longer struggling to keep up... they are struggling to keep up with you.
 
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Al Kraft said:
I'm fortunate enough to afford to really be retired, but I just can't seem to get away from the business. I figure that some day they won't be calling anymore and that'll be my cue to move on, but until then I'll keep answering the phone. The good news is that among the "retired but still working crowd" I'm still a younger guy. :thumbsup:


As a final thought, I'm really grateful to have the choice!
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My longtime friend worked for the government as a propulsion engineer and retired about five years ago. They put him on contract labor and continued to use him for about three more years.
 
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BassmanPaul said:
When you folks do eventually retire you’ll wonder how you ever had time to work!
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This is an amazingly accurate statement. I have no idea how I kept up with everything when I had to spend 10+ hours a day preparing for work, driving to work, working, driving home from work. I spent 35 years on the bleeding edge of technology and while mostly I enjoyed it, I got burned out. Love my retirement and especially my naps. Now get off my lawn.....
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
After a three day weekend wife Carey is ready for me to go back to work. When she can stand me home five days a week then I might see retirement at the end of the tunnel. Right now we both have routines that are based on me working five days a week.
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I know I'm not supposed to say this but, sometimes retirement is just as hard on the husband and it is on the wife. In my case, partial retirement has eased the pain (somewhat)!
 
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It’s common that more and more jobs today allow you to telecommute. You work from home, web conferences are common. You pray that your internet doesn’t go down.

The negative side is that you tend to spend more hours working. With team members residing anywhere in the world, scheduling meetings takes additional co-ordination. Meetings can start very early in the day, on the east coast, a meeting with someone in Japan might start at 8PM. What’s Monday here can be Tuesday for others.


Life certainly ain’t like it used to be.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
The negative side is that you tend to spend more hours working.
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Not only due to time zone adjustments, (although that can be an adjustment), too many times I would find my self at my computer at 2:00 PM (out of bed at 5:30 AM) thinking, "I need to go brush my teeth and eat something." To telecommute effectively, it takes a lot of self discipline. Connectivity can be a curse and a blessing.
 
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