I DID IT !
After months of running numbers and weeks of soul searching, I did it. I turned in my retirement notification this morning. In five weeks, on January 6, 2006, I'll leave my current job, which I've held for the past thirty years. Only 20 more working days left here.
I'll continue to work a few hours a week for my current employer and I have a 3 day a week (more or less) gig lined up with a nearby photogrammetric engineering company; but no more setting the alarm clock for 5:00 AM, five days a week. GREAT! Most of the part-time work that I'll be doing, I'll be able to do at home; so I won't even need to shave every day. ALSO GREAT! Plus, I'll not need to put on a necktie nearly as often as I do now (five days a week). EVEN GREATER!
I am really looking forward to this. The last time that I was not working full time was in 1967. I've never been unemployed; not for a single day of my adult life.
I'll continue to work a few hours a week for my current employer and I have a 3 day a week (more or less) gig lined up with a nearby photogrammetric engineering company; but no more setting the alarm clock for 5:00 AM, five days a week. GREAT! Most of the part-time work that I'll be doing, I'll be able to do at home; so I won't even need to shave every day. ALSO GREAT! Plus, I'll not need to put on a necktie nearly as often as I do now (five days a week). EVEN GREATER!
I am really looking forward to this. The last time that I was not working full time was in 1967. I've never been unemployed; not for a single day of my adult life.