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    Retired! ...again...LOL - and the day before my 62nd birthday to boot!

    Today is my last day at my current job. It's technically the end of my THIRD career!

    Career 1: At 20 years old, while going to college I was hired by the FAA as an Air Traffic Control Specialist (anyone remember the Controller strike under Reagan?). I retired from that job after 25 years and 5 months in February 2008. I could have left at 25 yrs. on Nov. 2007 but I made a deal with my boss to stay on a bit longer.

    Career 2: At the time I retired from ATC I owned a business - a wine bar - and took over as manager to work there full time (after part time for 3 years). That lasted about a year. I had gone from working 3 nights a week in ATC to 6 nights a week as a bar owner/manager. With a preschooler/kindergartner at home my wife put her foot down. So I sold the bar.

    I was a stay at home dad for a couple years but you never retire from that, lol, they just move out. BTW, that's REAL work!

    Career 3: Always having been a computer geek - my stint in college before ATC was studying "Computer Systems Analysis and Design" - and by this time (2010) an avid Linux user, I got a call from a former ATC co-worker to tell me the FAA had purchased room sized Tower Simulation Systems (I had retired out of LAX Tower) and they need someone to program and run the simulations. My third career was born. The sim software ran in CentOS 6.7 along with some Windows machine - 22 PCs in my system alone. I was hired as a contractor to run the LAX sim. After a couple years I had done so well that FAA Headquarters hired me to oversee and support the entire national system of Tower Simulators. About 35 at the time but has grown to more than 90 at this point with just over 200 airports having simulation training databases available. Last Dec. my contract through the company I work for was not renewed by the FAA and so C.O.B. today is my last day.

    Now my wife and I get to spend time travelling and spending the kids inheritances!

    Please Read Me

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    Congratulations!

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    Geez! THREE careers. Can we say 'over achiever'? hehe

    Enjoy your leisure time. Oh, wait. Now that you are at home 'full-time', your wife will have many to-do list items for you!! hehehehe
    Windows no longer obstructs my view.
    Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
    "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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    • oshunluvr
      oshunluvr commented
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      Yes - that's already started...lol

    #3
    Congratulations, enjoy life
    Dave Kubuntu 20.04 Registered Linux User #462608

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      #4
      Enjoy retirement!

      I turned 67 at the end of last year and I'm still working! The "boss" and I own a small craft beer pub. The Covid mess meant we were closed
      most of the time or had to work shorter hours to receive government compensation, and we decided to work just four hours a day, four
      days a week since restrictions were lifted. I've been working since I left school at 17! I think I've done enough!

      We take holidays when we want. We're going to Naha in Okinawa the week after next and are planning to either go to Taiwan in March or
      Ishigaki Island in April. I must also get to Thailand again soon, and I'm thinking of getting to the UK in October for a few beers with my
      brother!
      Last edited by Beerislife; Jan 12, 2024, 08:08 PM.
      Constant change is here to stay!

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        #5
        I hope you enjoy your new leisurely life
        I am digging a third rut to get myself stuck in, exacerbated by lessened mobility.
        I am only 4 years behind you (so this probably makes me the young whippersnapper here in KFN?)
        So do find the things you want to enjoy now, and enjoy the heck out of them, before it gets harder to do stuff.

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          #6
          Congrats oshunluvr!
          Kubuntu 24.11 64bit under Kernel 6.11.0, Hp Pavilion, 6MB ram. Stay away from all things Google...

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            #7
            Originally posted by Beerislife View Post
            Enjoy retirement!

            I turned 67 at the end of last year and I'm still working! The "boss" and I own a small craft beer pub. The Covid mess meant we were closed
            most of the time or had to work shorter hours to receive government compensation, and we decided to work just four hours a day, four
            days a week since restrictions were lifted. I've been working since I left school at 17! I think I've done enough!

            We take holidays when we want. We're going to Naha in Okinawa the week after next and are planning to either go to Taiwan in March or
            Ishigaki Island in April. I must also get to Thailand again soon, and I'm thinking of getting to the UK in October for a few beers with my
            brother!
            Sounds like a pretty good gig to me!

            We're travelers too:

            Leaving Friday for Southeast Asia - Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. 10 days each in Vietnam and Thailand - 3-4 days in the others. Should be fun!
            In August, we're going back to Southern Africa for at least a month - Zimbabwe, South Africa and probably one other country.
            Either in between those trips or in November we'll be in Southern France (for the bazillionth time) looking for homes and hopefully sneak in a trip to Egypt while we're there.

            When I said in the first post we were going to spend the kids' inheritances, I was NOT joking!

            Please Read Me

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              #8
              I used to go to Hong Kong twice a year pre Covid! But a lot of my favourite local breakfast places have closed. I'm not sure if we will do Thailand again this year, if we do it will be in autumn! Now, if only I had the money to retire there! Ishigaki Island in Okinawa is a second retirement choice!
              Constant change is here to stay!

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