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No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: JoeM
Date: January 24, 2018 09:05AM
Woohoo! I'm retiring at the end of the month, after 15 years at my present job as design manager and webmaster. Looking forward to getting back to reading the forum here more often and creating music and my own art again.

One of my last projects was a graphic for the Reuters building's digital screen in Times Square, NYC, last Monday. I worked for Reuters Financial Television for 4 years as their senior audio engineer and worked in this building for Reuters TV on and off, up to and including covering the attack on 9/11. It was nice to be back again!




JoeM
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: jardster
Date: January 24, 2018 09:10AM
Congrats! Time to party... but don't spend all of your money on hookers and booze.


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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: PeterW
Date: January 24, 2018 09:10AM
Welcome to the leisure life. Be forewarned that doing nothing isn’t as easy as it seems.
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: mattkime
Date: January 24, 2018 09:12AM
How did you survive times square??


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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: jh
Date: January 24, 2018 09:13AM
Welcome to retirement. But be warned as I found out:

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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: January 24, 2018 09:23AM
Congratulations ! Yet another person I want to emulate when I grow up !
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: Ammo
Date: January 24, 2018 09:33AM
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PeterW
Welcome to the leisure life. Be forewarned that doing nothing isn’t as easy as it seems.

My experience is different, but there are probably a lot of factors that affect how it goes.


Where is there dignity unless there is also honesty? - Cicero

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. —Wendy Mass
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: lost in space
Date: January 24, 2018 09:40AM
Congratulations! It took me a year to get used to it, but it wasn't difficult.


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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: pipiens
Date: January 24, 2018 09:45AM
Congrats !!!

Hookers & Booze YES !!!!
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 24, 2018 09:50AM
Congratulations! Enjoy




Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: ka jowct
Date: January 24, 2018 10:02AM
Congrats on your successful working life and retirement. Having time for your own work is a wonderful thing. Trying to get there myself, but retirement is proceeding glacially.
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: DP
Date: January 24, 2018 10:06AM
Sounds like you can be proud of your accomplishments! Congrats!




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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: Pam
Date: January 24, 2018 10:06AM
Congrats and welcome to the club!!! It takes months to adjust but it's not painful smiling smiley Also, don't surprised to find yourself so busy that you wonder how you used to have time to work!
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: richorlin
Date: January 24, 2018 10:27AM
Congratulations and I hope you have a long and enjoyable retirement.
I'll pass on some much-needed advice that was given to me by a long-retired friend when I pulled the pin five years ago:
Give yourself at least two years, and maybe more, to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life. Try a little of this and a little of that and maybe some of those.
Just don't sit in the "chair of death" watching "The View" or you won't make it till the next season.


richorlin



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Posted by: wave rider
Date: January 24, 2018 10:32AM
Congratulations!!! Enjoy!


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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: freeradical
Date: January 24, 2018 10:40AM
Nowadays, 15 years at the same job is pretty unusual.
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: vision63
Date: January 24, 2018 10:57AM
JoeM 2.0. congratulations!
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: riley5108
Date: January 24, 2018 10:57AM
Congratulations JoeM.

Don't be surprised if you find yourself dreaming about your old job (good and bad). Getting your internal time clock reset can be difficult, old habits are hard to break. Just enjoy yourself, do anything that keeps you happy. Ah, and learn to say No!!


- Riley
Southern Indiana, B-Town
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: January 24, 2018 11:26AM
....don't do it.....you might not regret it today but soon and for the rest of your life.....



.....anyway.....good luck and enjoy!


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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: testcase
Date: January 24, 2018 11:27AM
Congratulations on your retirement! smileys with beer

I'm out for almost seven years now and don't miss work at all (32+ years as a "County Mountie"). old fogey smiley

A small RV offers an amazing amount of travel freedom. I got a 17' Casita Spirit Deluxe Travel Trailer the year before I retired (to facilitate a trip to the Burning Man Festival). In four years, I logged over 50,000 miles, crisscrossing the country several times in that Casita. In 2014, I "graduated" to a Super-C Class diesel puller motorhome (a 2015, Dynamax DX3-37RB) that, once I get my house sold, I can easily live in full time. There's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much to see, do and explore across America and, an RV is an excellent way to do it!
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: Ombligo
Date: January 24, 2018 11:47AM
Good for you.

Just be sure to have something to stay active at that doesn't cost a mint. I ended up going back to work not because I needed the money (though the insurance is nice since I'm too young for Medicare), but to have something to do.


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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: January 24, 2018 12:00PM
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jardster
Congrats! Time to party... but don't spend all of your money on hookers and booze.

Yeah. You need to spend on non-essentials as well!

Congrats!
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: anonymouse1
Date: January 24, 2018 12:07PM
Congrats!
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: Randalls
Date: January 24, 2018 12:21PM
Post some new music and art when you make it. Have fun!
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: robfilms
Date: January 24, 2018 01:35PM
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vision63
JoeM 2.0. congratulations!

i like that thought.

thumbs up to vision63 for being clever.

thumbs up to joe for a job well done.

be well.

rob
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: beagledave
Date: January 24, 2018 01:44PM
Congrats. I hope that this is the start of new adventures smiling smiley
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: 3d
Date: January 24, 2018 01:45PM
70 hour work weeks?! Please tell me you got overtime pay. That's insane.
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: TLB
Date: January 24, 2018 02:14PM
Hope to get there, need about 5 years to reach a survivable, minimalist retirement.
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: GuyGene
Date: January 24, 2018 02:45PM
Wow, JoeM2.0, Great!! Good job all those years. Health. That's the ticket. Mine has gone down lately...so do take care of that. I'm getting kicked out March 31st, so officially, April Fool Day is my first full day of retirement!

I know you will have a great retirement! Seems like you have some good hobbies to do.


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Posted by: DinerDave
Date: January 24, 2018 04:30PM
Congrats! I was going to say spend more time on the forum, but you covered that sentiment right away. I've got 7-8 years, want the solar loan gone before I retire.
Hopefully your health and finances will allow you travel at will and a lot. That is what we want when the time comes.
Knock yourself out JoeM! Well not literally.

Dave


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Posted by: Rick-o
Date: January 24, 2018 04:41PM
Congrats!! Give yourself some time to decompress. You've got it made now. No more daily grind! Huzzah!


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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: JoeM
Date: January 24, 2018 04:58PM
Thanks so much everyone! So much good advice here, I'm going to read over everyone's posts a couple of times to absorb it. I can't tell you all how many times I've wanted to read over the posts here but have been so busy and overloaded that I just couldn't. I was so busy at one point, that I actually worked from January through March with one day off. Not going to miss that!hamster dance


JoeM
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: JoeM
Date: January 24, 2018 05:03PM
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3d
70 hour work weeks?! Please tell me you got overtime pay. That's insane.

No, no OT, I'm a... "manager". But I did get 5 weeks vacation (usually wound up working for two of them at Christmas time). It's all good. I was fortunate to work with good friends and the company was very loyal to me over all the years so I willingly accepted the crunch and was grateful for what I had.


JoeM
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: Bernie
Date: January 24, 2018 05:36PM
I can only imagine retirement.
I work a lot of overtime.
Perhaps a 40 hour week is retirement.

Hey JoeM.
Congratulations.

Here is an addictive time killer that I play on the iPad and the wife plays on her phone.
Animal Crossing Pocket Camp


it will keep you off social media.

smiley-laughing001



Staunton, Virginia
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Posted by: Speedy
Date: January 25, 2018 09:59PM
Congrats. And enjoy!


Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.
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Re: No more 24/7, 70 hour work weeks for me! I'm retiring! :-)
Posted by: Winston
Date: January 25, 2018 10:04PM
My wife's just started another career, in small group travel. At least she will get to go on some trips.

I don't think I'll ever really "retire". But then I tell my kids I haven't figured out what I am going to do when I grow up.

Just a thought, after you decompress a bit: lots of non-profit organizations could use your help. There might be one which fits your passions.


Good luck.

- Winston


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Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: January 26, 2018 12:06PM
....hope you really love the spouse.....because you will be spending mucho time........


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Posted by: Winston
Date: January 26, 2018 10:44PM
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NewtonMP2100
....hope you really love the spouse.....because you will be spending mucho time........


on trips with her!


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