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Originally Posted by LS short box
June 17th 2021 will be four years of retirement for me. Close to 40 years at the company for me. I was 59 when I pulled the plug. Don't regret it for minute. My wife was 6 months after me. She was 35 years at her company. She helped start a company from 4 people to over 300. Very cool.
I was in international sales for 25 plus years and had many offers of "consulting projects" after retirement but I just wanted to be home. I traveled 2-3 weeks per month. I really enjoyed meeting customers but couldn't do justice to their projects if I was only around 2-3 days a week.
I really enjoyed training or pay it forward with the guys that took over my position.
Now I spend 3-4 hours a day on car or non car projects and like it a lot.
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I "shrugged" when I turned 62 at the end of 2015. S/W engineer jobs were getting harder to find with all the <cough> folks coming in from another country, so I said the heck with it. I didn't want to move away from our place for the last few years of work, and I just couldn't find another project where they would let me work from home most of the time as I had been doing for 15 years.
I was going to just find some sort of local minimum job to fill in but then my mother had a stroke in May 2016 and that changed everything. Now I'm
almost done with the estate stuff after a year.
There's lots of stuff to do around here, when the weather is such that it's possible. I don't feel as good as I used to, either
But it would be fun to go out and run a nice piece of equipment a couple days a week, or drive a truck like you're doing. I've even
thought about buying a grader.