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Retirement!!!
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The thread is interesting...
In my world, I had to announce my intent to retire 12 months in advance--that's something probably unique to universities--and so I've been watching this thread with interest. I'm now about two months out from the end of my classroom obligations but 5 months from the official date of my last check. While I had planned to die in the front of the classroom, I've now reassessed the environment and am content with abandoning that fantasy.
Forty years here have been worth it; I'm proud of what I've done for my students and grateful for what I've learned. But having made the transition from "young Turk" to "old fart" over that period, I am ready for change.
What that change will be is, at the moment, a freedom from increasing "obligations" to folks who assume that I owe them what I offer them, and then accept what I deliver grudgingly. That group encompasses students, colleagues and the "institution" (or its constituent administors with whom I have cooperated for the good of the university over the last four decades).
I'm in a good place: my kids are self-sufficient and a source of pride; my available resources are equal to the modest lifestyle I enjoy, and at athe moment no health problems are visible. So I have some space and time to define the next stage. It will entail, as has every other stage, some continuous learning; it may also include some sharing of that learning in far less formal environments (as long as those environments allow me to continue learning from those whom I am purportedly teaching) and, most generally, a freedom to choose that I have never before enjoyed.
So we'll see how all of this works out in the next couple of years....
Larry Johnson
El Paso Tx
In my world, I had to announce my intent to retire 12 months in advance--that's something probably unique to universities--and so I've been watching this thread with interest. I'm now about two months out from the end of my classroom obligations but 5 months from the official date of my last check. While I had planned to die in the front of the classroom, I've now reassessed the environment and am content with abandoning that fantasy.
Forty years here have been worth it; I'm proud of what I've done for my students and grateful for what I've learned. But having made the transition from "young Turk" to "old fart" over that period, I am ready for change.
What that change will be is, at the moment, a freedom from increasing "obligations" to folks who assume that I owe them what I offer them, and then accept what I deliver grudgingly. That group encompasses students, colleagues and the "institution" (or its constituent administors with whom I have cooperated for the good of the university over the last four decades).
I'm in a good place: my kids are self-sufficient and a source of pride; my available resources are equal to the modest lifestyle I enjoy, and at athe moment no health problems are visible. So I have some space and time to define the next stage. It will entail, as has every other stage, some continuous learning; it may also include some sharing of that learning in far less formal environments (as long as those environments allow me to continue learning from those whom I am purportedly teaching) and, most generally, a freedom to choose that I have never before enjoyed.
So we'll see how all of this works out in the next couple of years....
Larry Johnson
El Paso Tx
Rod Sheridan
New member
Well Hugh, belated congratulations on your retirement.
Happy riding, time to go out in the world and do good, as opposed to going out to work..........Rod.
Happy riding, time to go out in the world and do good, as opposed to going out to work..........Rod.
rad
Retired from riding
Congrats...........................
Daymn, that was your first post! Great first post!!
AKsuited
New member
I have reached my retirement age of 62 and can now retire without any penalties. I might go the middle of July but things are crazy at work and I may stick around through the end of the construction season as long as I can get some time off for a road trip or two.
Just knowing I can retire whenever I want makes things a lot better.
Harry
Just knowing I can retire whenever I want makes things a lot better.
Harry
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jnerges
Hear that ticking sound?
Tomorrow is my last working day after 30 years in the Army.
I can identify heavily with a lot of this thread. I also put my retirement paperwork in a year out. Supposed to glide out slowly but the last three weeks have been the most intense in two years. Major inspection, lots of other intense silliness. So tomorrow, at the end of the inspection, I got on leave for a week, get a parade and start outprocessing. See you in Sedalia.
I can identify heavily with a lot of this thread. I also put my retirement paperwork in a year out. Supposed to glide out slowly but the last three weeks have been the most intense in two years. Major inspection, lots of other intense silliness. So tomorrow, at the end of the inspection, I got on leave for a week, get a parade and start outprocessing. See you in Sedalia.
greenwald
New member
Tomorrow is my last working day after 30 years in the Army.
I can identify heavily with a lot of this thread. I also put my retirement paperwork in a year out. Supposed to glide out slowly but the last three weeks have been the most intense in two years. Major inspection, lots of other intense silliness. So tomorrow, at the end of the inspection, I got on leave for a week, get a parade and start outprocessing. See you in Sedalia.
Buy that soldier a beer!
Tomorrow is my last working day after 30 years in the Army.
I can identify heavily with a lot of this thread. I also put my retirement paperwork in a year out. Supposed to glide out slowly but the last three weeks have been the most intense in two years. Major inspection, lots of other intense silliness. So tomorrow, at the end of the inspection, I got on leave for a week, get a parade and start outprocessing. See you in Sedalia.
Thank you for your service enjoy your retirement
Roy.Jackson55@aol.com
You stupid, fix it!
29 months, 2weeks, 5days not that I'm counting.
HOORAH AKsuited
HOORAH AKsuited
dennisdarrow
#4869 Earned Lifetime mem
No we dont.......we end up in the waiting room down at the VA telling each other how the Gov should do it right.............God bless........Dennis
Interesting that this thread is still going! Haven't been in touch for a while, because my password somehow changed, and I couldn't get in. Didn't have time to fiddle with it until now. That's right.....didn't have time. I retired on January 20th, and have never looked back....wish I had done it years sooner. I play golf 4-5 times a week, ride a lot, am officiating local amateur golf events, and generally spend so much time enjoying life I cannot explain how I ever had time to work. No more airport pat downs for my metal knees, as I drive or ride anywhere I go now (except overseas - going to Italy in October). Went to the Masters two weeks ago, riding to Vegas in two weeks. Life is great. Stop working......start living!
greenwald
New member
You make things sound so good, you almost want to make me take up golf..........almost!
