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I am business communications tect 35 years retireing friday 29th at 63 years will have more time to play I mean work with my 58 year old 8N

Gary
 
(quoted from post at 23:47:46 08/27/08) I am business communications tect 35 years retireing friday 29th at 63 years will have more time to play I mean work with my 58 year old 8N

Gary

Congratulations!!!!

I am celebrating too!!!

I have had a bad tooth for nearly a month now.

Susan just watched me walk in here and get the small channel locks out of the desk drawer, and in about 10 seconds, hand her my bad tooth.

I am making a good living, I think this is number 5, I have pulled myself, at $100+ a pop that adds up.

I can furnish pics, but I bet yall don't care to see em.

This is the first I have drank since Saturday, I guess, I needed to fall off the wagon.

Got me feeling better!!!

Man I am glad to have that tooth out of there!!
 
Retired, last job was a 9 year stint as a custodian/maintenence man for a local IGA chain. Have worked at a wide variety of things in my life. First off the family farm job was swinging a pick and shovel for township road culvert mainetnence at age 15.
Mr. Bob
 
I've had so many jobs I can't say which one I retired from but yes I'm retired because my doctor told me I had to. I have been a newspaper boy , good money back then at over $200 a week. Been in the Navy as an E.T. Electronics teck. Did tire repair, worked on radios and T.V.s Was a maintance man in a big factory. Been a machinic off and on over the year. Last job was a truck drive heavy equipment op. Thats when my doctor said NO MORE work. I have a lot of other things but if I say them all it would get long very long. Lets just say I got bored with my jobs and always wanted to learn something new. Oh one other big one was I was a welder, mig tig, and stick
 
Didn't give age, will now,63. Worked in underground hard rock mines from 1965 up to 2001. Retired for 5 years, got talked into going back to work. Started and compleated 2 tunnel projects in Alaska. Been home for 2 months. Now I guess I'll go to Peru for awhile. I'm leaving on the 12th of next month. I have worked in Arizona, Nevada, California,New Mexico, Colorado,Montana, Wisconsin, Alaska,Louisana,Utah,Mexico, Chile, Indonesia, and now Peru. Except for about 10 years all of my jobs have been with mining contractors, building new mines. Alot of moving around as you can see,but I have loved every minute of it. My resume looks like a Sears catalogue!!! I'm really glad I got talked into going back to work. I really missed the work and the comradrie. What a great bunch of guys!!
 
(quoted from post at 00:12:16 08/28/08) OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad your feelin better Dr.Dunk DDS&Ns

I feel a LOT better thanks!!!

So much better that I posted, and missed the whole point of the topic.

I have done a bit of everything in my time.

Some highlights are Electrician, HVAC TECH/Contrator, Well Pump Man, but these days, Network Systems Engineer.

Owned a scrap yard, and garage.

I need to hush for a while...

That tooth don't hurt laying here on the desk where I can see it.
 
O.K. I admit it. I sat here looking at this post from someone in "communications" and... No, forget it, I'm sorry. I'll drop it, pretend I never said anything. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry.
 
OK...paperboy, grocery store sacker, Construction gofer, Electronic Tech, Assoc Engineer, Design Engineer, Field Apps Engineer, Sales Engineer, Distribution Manager, and now Contract Engineering when not playing. :D
 
Retired process engineer with Firestone Ag Tires 4 years ago. After a year of piddlin' I started driving a School Bus, taking the future presidents to get some edukasun.

Steve
 

25 year old here.. Bought my farm when I was 22, raised on a farm since I was 7, Im an Ex aircraft technician for the Canadian Forces, now I am an administrative clerk part time, and a farmer the other half. Im seasoned though. Been through 4 career changes already. Have my red seal for Culinary Arts, and presently finishing up my Bachelors of Agricultural Sciences specializing in Crop Advisory and Production!!!
 
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Raised in the hay fields of WYO., CO., and MT.. 20 yr. retired USN, as a Criminal/drug investigator for the military. Odd jobs for awhile, then Moved to MT. in '89', started my own buis....Fencing and landscaping, retired from that 4 yrs. ago, Due to 3 mini-strokes and 1 minor heart attack. LONG,HARD hrs. almost did me in.
Just been livin' LARGE ever since!!! Just Me and my bride of 48 yrs.!!! :shock:
3 kids, 4 grandkids, and 2 great grandkids!!!! 8)
Havin' fun!!!!!!

Gary :) [/i:a1cd541f9f][/b:a1cd541f9f]
 
Let's see: husband to my first and only wife for 20 years, father for almost 19; elder in our small church.

Started out in high school as a grocery store bagger and stocker. Put myself through college as an accounting department data entry guy and draftsman for an engineering firm.

Graduated as an industrial designer, moved on to become a print and graphic designer, software interface designer, multimedia developer, web developer, special event and trade show designer, marketing director, self-employed web & multimedia designer.

Am currently an industrial designer again, doing product branding for a "global earthmoving equipment" company.

Oh, and a part-time farmer now, too. :P

es
 
Retired at the age of 57 after 32 years as a union steamfitter, seven years ago. I have been in a cycling club for almost twenty five years so with my free time I"ve cycled (bicycled) around the country. Did the 76 bike route from Yorktown, VA. to Astoria, OR., Up the east coast from Ft. Meyers, FL to Harrisburg, PA. Four weeks of circumnavigating Switzerland and one week in S. France, Jasper, Alberta to Whitefish, MT. by way of Lake Louise and Glacier Nat"l Pk. The state of Vermont and most recently around Lake Ontario. Keeping it a true adventure by not having any support vehicles and carrying our own gear.

Between skiing XC and downhill, hunting, firewood, playing with the Ford tractors at camp and traveling there is no free time in retirement.

Life is good,

Jack
 
The "Cliff's Note's" version: retired military, retired VA state government, now farming.

The "War & Peace" version:

As a kid, I'd always wanted to join the military, so in 1967, fresh out of HS, I joined the Army. I volunteered for jump school, then Special Forces. Viet-Nam in 1969 & got out in 1970 to attend college. I couldn't find a part-time job while I was in college, so when I heard there was a Special Forces Reserve unit in town, I signed up. I couldn't believe they would pay me money to jump out of airplanes, shoot guns & blow stuff up! I enjoyed that & finally retired from the Reserves in 1991.

When I got out of college as a history major, employment prospects were pretty dim. I got on w/ the state highway department in 1973. From there, I managed to get into financial management & ended my 33 year career as the head of the state agency in VA that funded the local Sheriffs, prosecutors, & court clerks.

Along the way, probably as a result of temporary insanity, I got involved in politics in the little town I lived in (Ashland VA) and got elected 4 times to the town council.

This is my second season selling at the local farmers market. As long as I don't need the income to pay the mortgage, farming is very pleasant & rewarding!

My wife retired last year (on disability, unfortunately). Most of her career was as a para-legal & office manager for the local prosecutor. She spends her time now in the flower gardens & training our dogs.
 
Drug store soda fountain clean-up kid, stock boy, electrician"s go-fer, junkyard dog & wrecker driver, engineering degree, Air Force radar school instructor (Captain), three mighty fine children, next 30 years part time cattle/hay operation while full time at TI/Raytheon designing/building better machines to kill people with, for our great USA military. Retired for 10 years, raising my beautiful granddaughter, doing a little cattle/tractor/air conditioning/electronics work when she allows the time. Two 8Ns, Farmall SMTA, IH 101 combine, MF275.
 
Bought a gas station when i was a sr. in H.S. Drafted into army where I broke things, then college, then homebuilder and last 25 years Insurance claims.
 
Retired Air Force, C-130 Flight Engineer. Now a simulator instructor, teaching folks to do what I did when I was in.
 
Congrats to you! From all the retired people I talk to, you will have more to do in "retirement" than you ever did working!
 
Grew up on a farm, worked at a local grocery besides (Dad said he paid by room and board.. didn't do much for "date money") City Cop in Greenville, Il. for about 2.5 yrs then went to ISP. Now a 21 year sgt w/ the Illinois State Police. 5 yrs to go til I can retire at 80%!
Started restoring tractors when I was a city cop, as I needed a hobby. Have done 33 since then, but 4 kids have slowed me down a bit.
Still putter on them, as the kids love parades and they all have claimed at least ONE tractor as theirs..
 
Mostly carpentry over the years mixed in parts person, plastics injection molding tech, hi-rise window washer, oilfield grunt, exploratory diamond driller - that was one of my favorites got to fly in the tundra in a helicopter lots of crazy stories there, presently own my own business doing sheetmetal work building greenhouses and installing eavestroughs in the off season. Only 35 so I hope to see a pile more occupations yet - good to switch up so you don't get bored.
 
Sixty years last May. I'll never retire, this is too much fun.
Paper route, butcher shop helper, electrician, auto-mechanic, airplane mechanic, flight instructor, commuter airline pilot, corporate pilot, factory demo pilot (BAe), gov't pilot, simulator instructor (DFW). Fly and ranch and labrador dogs and tend to the best wife in the world and all our kids and grandkids.

Here's a pic of one of the guys I recently taught to fly jets:
AndrewsAFB3RonAlvarado.jpg
 
Grew up in a village that currently boasts a population of 15.

Saved up my first $1000 by the time I was 10 by riding my Huffy banana seat bike up and down the county roads picking up aluminum cans.

While in high school I worked as a grunt at a nursery/christmas tree farm, got promoted to field foreman when I was 15. Also did bookkeeping for them during the winters. Worked for various area farmers milking and putting up hay, including for my grandparents and parents throughout high school. Worked part time at a local hatchery for 2 years.

Put myself through college by working construction and work study job with a non-profit. Graduated college and spent 4 years as an assistant director of the non-profit, working mainly in Santa Fe, NM and sometimes in Washington, DC. Then did a stint working for a political party.

Got home sick. Got sick of politics. Moved back close to my family. Am now a bookkeeper for an eCommerce company, dreaming of farming.

Colin, MN
 
I'm a head custodian at an elementary school in Benton Co. IN. The same one my 8 year son is in and 14 year daughter went to. Been here 9 years. Thanks to who offerd me great advice.
 
Retired from local government, Community Development Director/Public Housing Director for 25 years. Before that, General Contractor, Wheatherization Specialist, now part time helping other communities out but still playing drums in a Classic Rock band, skiing, hiking, canoeing, camping, been cutting, hauling firewood for all my families heat since I got married, 33 years ago. I work on my 9N just to give me some appreciation for how simple and basic things used to be.
 
I'm a physicist, although my degree says Nuclear Engineering. I'm a radiation safety officer for a large health system, and before that I was RSO for a university, and before that a consultant. I also teach physics at our hospital's school for x-ray techs.

I love working on my tractors. Keeps me from killing arrogant physicians...
Now my almost 5 year old daughter is getting old enough to help me wrench, and that is tremendously rewarding.

Greg
 
Been doing carpentry/cabinetmaking/woodowrking most of my career- residential, light commercial, some big stuff....landed a sweet gig at the U of MN Ag campus about 25 yrs ago...mostly fixing things students, staff and large animals break....been with the same gal for 37 yrs now; met her at a Grateful Dead show....have 5 kids, all contributing members of society- teacher, researcher, fireman, chef, arborist...looks like I'll retire in a year or two, then me and my 2N can tend my 43 ares of trees.
good thread...
pete
 
(quoted from post at 14:04:34 08/28/08)
Here's a pic of one of the guys I recently taught to fly jets:
You taught George W how to fly?? :lol:

No, all us taxpayers did that. But he rarely showed up for work. He and his friend Jim Bath partied and failed to show up for their physicals. (But they were both rewarded by the Saudi's for their arab loyalties.)
When I flew for him when he was gov. of TX he never showed any interest at all in correcting the bad mgmt and mistreatment of employees at the aircraft pool.

It is the real hero in the pic, the MARINE pilot who I taught, Maj. Ron Alvarado, true American!
 
Involuntarily retired in 1999 from the Boeing Co after 20yrs as a Flt Test Engineer, measuring the effects of vibration on airplanes with accelerometers. People get excited when wings and things fall off airplanes for some reason.

I was 61yo, too young to retire, to old to rehire. So Boeing paid me to go back to school for my 4th degree. Then my wife of 32yrs divorced me. After school, still no prospects, so I "officially" retired to my RockyRidge SheepStation where I use my eazy starting 6-volt 52-8N for pasture maintenance.

I've been a licensed Electronics Radio Engr since 1958 and professionally an instrumentation engr on space tracking stations for USAF and NASA around the world until hiring on at Boeing......Dell, retired 70-young
 
Age 60 in a couple of weeks. Started as a onion topper on a muck farm in high school. Senior year and thru college I worked in a grocery store as a clerk. Moved to produce manager and then assistant store manager. After college got a degree in electrical technology. Worked for a couple of years and went back and got a degree in education. Taught Shop(Industrial Arts)then technology in both middle and high school for a number of years and then got into computers. Taught computer education and computer animation and Cadd. For the last 10 years have been the computer coordinator for a local school district. Summers for the first years of teaching I spent building a house a summer for a while. Also a licensed electrician and for the past 15 years been running an electrical business on the side. Plan on retiring from school in December after 37 years, then will be doing electrical work only and playing with my 1944 2N
 
Busboy, grocery stockboy, sheetmetal worker, jet engine mechanic 4yrs USAF, 14 yrs. window and door (inside sales, service tech, manager), opened my own business as a window and door repair/replacement specialist now in my 14th year. About ready to burn out in the window and door business due to vendors lack of service and quality. Open to new avenues. Thanks for asking.
DON TX
 
Newspaper carrier, short order cook, stock boy, U.S. Navy in destroyers in the late '50s (Beirut invasion), garment factory worker, school teacher, prison counselor, parole officer, welfare worker, probation officer, lawyer, judge, mediator, arbitrator, now retired to my 140 acre farm living in a 175 year old poplar log homestead house, looking after 4 8Ns, 54 Chevy pickup, two cats, nine chickens, and hordes of deer eating my garden. The Department of Agriculture calls me a "producer" because I have someone else farm the 127 tillable acres.
 

44 years young here.

I am an operator at a really big combined cycle power plant in California. The first one they built in 15 years here. Due to the energy shortage the state finally apporved it. Two huge GE natural gas frame 7FA (155 MW) and a Alstom steam turbine (265 MW) for a combined 565 MW total. Each gas turbine produces like 565,000 HP. That is why I line my 9N it may be low HP but is sure is fun to tinker with......And the best part is: Being a energy hungry country I have job security...I am truely BLESSED
Robert Miller
Bakersfield, Ca
 
Retired DJ, police dispatcher, Navy spook, bank VP, hospital CFO and small business owner. I like retirement better... 8)
 
65 years young. Grew in the Steel City of Gary,Indiana. Got my first job as a caddy at the local golf course at the age of 11. Worked as a drug store clerk, a movie theater usher, grocery stock boy a steel mill tractor mechanic (to put myself through college) graduated from Purdue University with a B.S in Aeronautical Engineering and went to work as a Propulsion Engineer for a big airplane outfit in Seattle whose name I won't mention. Picked up an M.S.in Engineering( Mechanical) at the U of W along the way, picked up three U.S. Patents, served on the Propulsion Advisory Committee to NASA and retired as Propulsion Chief Engineer for Research and Preliminary Designfrom the aforemntioned company after 34+ years of servce. I was certified as an Extension Livestock Advisor by Washington State University (a volunteer position)in 1994, have rasied beef cattle on small acreages since 1976 and have a small irrigated cattle ranch in NW Montana where my wife raises a big garden and I raise Red Angus cattle and a little hell every once in a while.
 
I grew up working on dads grain and dairy farm back then we farmed about 420 acres my old 1943 2N did all the planting and 1/3 the cultivating and some ploughing back in the day.Then went to work driving and working on semi trucks for a small home town truck line.Then went to work for Uncle Sam in the army(Nam)+8 years as a part time machinist in the National Guard.While back to work at the truck lines.Then went to work as a Diesel Mechanic for Yellow Freight till they closed the Efingham Il. terminal.
Ran my own garage working on cars,trucks and tractors,welding,fabricator also a fairrier (horse hoof trimming and shoeing)back then to.Then Back to work as a Diesel Mechanic in 86 for Yellow Freight in Memphis Tn.and still there turnin wrenches.Gona retire one of these days soon I hope:-)
 
Been an electrician 40 years, now retired.I just drive the wife crazy and play around our 10 acres.
Oh and played Army for a while.
Joe
 
I have an uncle by marriage that retired a few years ago as an "hJ'(head janitor) at a local school. He was there many years and basically was the "big hammer". Principals came and went, but his commanding presence left no doubt as to who was REALLY in charge. My last job before retirement was a custodian/maintenence man at IGA. I liked that line of work better than anything else I've ever worked at. If I were going back into the job market, a job like yours would be what I'd try to get.
Mr. Bob
 

Started out working in a garage door company warehouse...That lasted a year and they went out of business....Buddy showed me how to install a garage door and I then was a installer for a lumber yard...Mid 80's Worked there for a couple years. Then moved on to another GD company...Worked there a couple years and new construction tanked out(layed off)...Worked for a delivery service for a couple years(worse job ever)...Then business picked up in the GD business again and last place asked me back...worked there a couple more years and got ------ off and quit. went to work at a Ford dealership(changing oil) That lasted a year....That brings me up to 1993-1997 USN 3rd class Boatswainsmate when I got out in 1997...Collected unemployment for 9 months after that 8) :lol: Got a job installing prefab fireplaces...Did that for a couple years and went back to Garage Doors Worked for a company as a garage door service tech for 5 years....Quit and started sub contracting and installing garage doors....still doing that today!!! Subcontract for 2 companies now plus I sell to several regular customers I have known for years....Notice I always go back to garage doors? Self employed for 5 years now.
 
Retired military,6 years ago. 9 years Navy P3 flight Engineer, 11 years helicopter crewman. Working on state retirement now. Property appraiser for state department of revenue, do audits on the county property tax assessors now.
 
Carpenter.
Found a niche in fancy bathrooms and a kitchen now and then.
Tax lady says I'm a sole proprietorship.
Bid them, build them, bill them.
 
yesterday a over paid transmission mechanic, 2 day a underpaid appliance mechanic,,, never know what 2 morrow will bring,,, looks like a coolant leak checker or a cam belt re placer or a check engine lite fixer,,, long as its not a hockylogist,,, I really don't kerr muck for play'n in chit, mine are enny one else's,,, good thang tho is I have a excuse to buy enny tool needed fer the job,,, I was doing rite well in produce till the kin folk stold me blind,,, had to take down my mater's for sale sign,,, self employed for 30 years,,, ASE certified master wif Advanced engine performance A1,,, USDA choice prime,,, still look fer a doc like Old has so I kin git mail box money,,, may B I kin git bored wif how many tractors I have,,, my collection has bit the dust,,, had to kill a 600 and pay tax'izz on the resale of the parts,,, educating collage kids are kill a tractor,,, tractor lost,,, reminds me my werk'n rags are in the wash'n moechine,,, gotta git'em out,,, life as a poor boy shore is tuff,,, hope this studying abroad fer the kids pays off,,, they say its a exchange deal,,, I tink I am git'n the short end of the exchange deal,,, save up cuzz looks like I mite not B in the same sink'n boat wif all the young guys around here :roll:
 
36..i think...after 25, only age that matters is retirement.

high school was farm hand, and then college to be electrical engineer, drove school bus to pay for college. got bored and did odd jobs for a few years, actually lost track of time, then got my EMT and then paramedic, joined the air force as fire fighter, went to afgan and then iraq, then got out and now am a 911 dispatcher for fire and ems. married 9 years to a police officer.
 
58 - Think this year I'll start counting BACKWARDS.

Helped work the Family farm until I was 12. Parents couldn't make it go and sold the dairy herd. Butcher shop helper in a supermarket, Laborer, Masons Helper, Clerk ( many times), Drafting Tech., Electronics Tech, Mechanic, Carpenter, Truck Driver, Mainframe Computer Programer, Mainframe Computer Operator, Service rep Control Data Corp.
Finally landed a real job with Prime Computer in '84. Would have retired from there 3 years ago if they hadn't gone t1t5 up on the information super highway. 6 years later got back to a real job and back in a retirement system. Now Windows Network System Administrator with the University at Albany, Albany NY.
I sit in a sub-basement all day and never see the light of day!
 
Woodchuck,

My father was in Control Data's "Cybersearch" - their engineering recruitment department at Arden Hills, MN in the early '80s. He quit in 1984 and started farming.

Colin, MN
 
Information Technology Manager.....last 9 years. Prior to that.....Communication Tech for large petroleum corp.....for 9 years. Prior to that.....Engineering Tech for Communication Engineering firm.....for 16 years. Prior to that.....I don't think there was a prior to be had anywhere!
 
Did some time in the Army, hence my screen name. Red being the color for artillery, and during the civil war, artillery wore red leggings for identifiaction and became known as redlegs. It's now a common radio callsign for artillery. I was a Forward Observor for the artillery for 8 yrs. Went to Desert Storm and spent some time in Germany. Had a good thing going with the Michigan State Police until I lost an arguement with a motorcycle (off duty). Was off work 2 yrs, been working as a state police /911 dispatcher for the last 8 yrs.

Don
 
Let's see, started mowing grass, then cleaned offices. Started as county emergency communications dispatcher, I am EMT & instructor, and deputy coroner..then got on with state police as dispatcher..I CAN keep busy working, if my wife lets me....lol!
 
Grocery bag boy; painter/paper hanger; motel clerk/night manager; convenience store clerk; 24 year Air Force command control (274BGC); medical supply delivery , four years now: not underground anymore and don't see the same faces everyday.

Husband, father and in three months or so, Grand dad!
 
Started mowing lawns at 10 then driving tractors at 12 and worked as a hired hand until 32 years old.then as a grounds keeper for about a year then state highway fixing bridges and driving snow plows. From about 96 till now driving trucks and semis for the last12 . Also moving into my small farm slowly. poor health is slowly taking me down and maybe get disability for my severe sleep apnea,spinal stenosis,spondlosis, and Ibs. Hoping to make it the next 19 years until retirement at 67.
 
27 years as a Deputy Sheriff. Been a Major of the court security for the last 12 years, which has been a little more stressful since Brian Nichols pulled his stunt in the neighring county of Fulton. Love my job but still plan to retire in 20 months. A bad day of bushhogging and plowing is still better than a good day at work.
(Are there really any bad days on a tractor, shy of falling off, running into something, getting popped by some wasps)
 
(quoted from post at 05:48:03 08/31/08) 27 years as a Deputy Sheriff. Been a Major of the court security for the last 12 years, which has been a little more stressful since Brian Nichols pulled his stunt in the neighring county of Fulton. Love my job but still plan to retire in 20 months. A bad day of bushhogging and plowing is still better than a good day at work.
(Are there really any bad days on a tractor, shy of falling off, running into something, getting popped by some wasps)

Only the day I was plowing 14 inches of snow with a full load on the back blade and my back wheel fell off because I didn't know I lost the locknut. Half hour of shoveling just to get the jack under it.. but you don't have to worry about that down there... 8) got one of those retirement clocks yet?
 
Yes on the retirement clock. It is on my work computer. It gives you all the info such as how many minutes you have been alive, how many times your heart has beat,how many hours you have been asleep, and on and on. Everything is approximate except the date of the retirement.I heard Friday the retirement plan may change next week. Hoping it doesn't impact my date or potential dollar amount.
 
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