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01-07-2010, 06:59 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
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How many ways are there to say no?
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There's no need to complicate, our time is short..
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01-07-2010, 07:10 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 3,323
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If I wasn't eldercaring? H*ll, yes!!! Absolutely I'd set a business up and start it all over again. Different strokes.
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01-07-2010, 07:20 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,473
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Bet you all can guess my answer:
NO!!! I would not take my job back.
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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01-07-2010, 07:23 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 3,851
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Well, it's a question I don't have to answer since my former j*b was eliminated, along with the company's local operations over the last year (I retired close to three years ago).
However, if asked the question, I would simply reply "I'll flip a coin - if it stays in the air, I'll resume my previous duties "..
Guess that answers your question.
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01-07-2010, 07:56 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Now? No, of course not.
But yeah, if I was 22 I'd do it again. That was a wild ride. I just feel lucky to have survived the experience.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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01-07-2010, 07:59 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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Sure. For $1M/yr, I would do it.
Actually, I would do it for a little less than that (as I am still doing similar work part-time), but it doesn't hurt to ask. Right?
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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01-07-2010, 08:24 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: North-Central Illinois
Posts: 3,228
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No way...No how....Huh-uh....Nope....Not in a zillion bazillion quadrillion years!!!
Besides....I ain't got time!!!
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01-07-2010, 08:46 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 6,682
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The main reason I left my job was because of the terrible commute. A secondary reason I left was because I had become ineligible for the group health plan after I had reduced my weekly hours from 20 to 12 in 2007. In my exit interview, I told the HR assistant that for me to even consider staying with the company, I would have to not only get the old telecommute deal I had from 2001-2003 with fewer overall weekly hours (12 max with 1 trip max per month to NJ) but I would also need group health eligibility, even if I paid for more than 50% of the premiums.
They were both non-starters, of course. (big surprise) So that leaves me retired.
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01-07-2010, 09:58 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 7,733
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I generally did a different job every couple of years. I can think of two I'd take back in a second, one if the pay was right and three I wouldn't. Of course, the company culture has change and most people think not for the better.
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01-07-2010, 10:32 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Chicago
Posts: 13,151
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Sure, now that I've had 3.5 yrs of "rest" I'd go back for another stint of a year or two. My final 3 yrs of employment, I was on a "special assignment" doing some interesting international travel and training. After many years of "meeting the numbers" every month in a manufacturing environment, it was actually fun heading out to SA, Europe and Asia to help those folks be successful.
The end came just in time as DW and I both felt my time away from home should come to an end. But now..... having not even thought about flying anywhere since I RE'd, I'd put on the gloves for another round or two.
But return to my long time assignment working in the factory in suburban Chicago? Nah. That had gotten old after many years and doesn't call out to me at all.
Edit: BTW, DW would disagree with this 100%. Hanging around here while I'm off globe-trotting and brain dumping on captive audiences wouldn't be fun for her. So, I'll keep my hypothetical thoughts ref returning to that gig to myself!
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01-07-2010, 10:44 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: At The Cafe
Posts: 6,873
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01-07-2010, 10:45 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 1,688
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If I needed the money, I would take (just about) any job including my old job rather than put my family through a downward adjustment in lifestyle or put my longer term financial security and quality of life in retirement at risk.
I might draw the line at working for the TSA though.....
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01-07-2010, 11:14 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 1,688
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Budgeting is a skill practised by people who are bad at politics.
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01-08-2010, 12:40 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: At The Cafe
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No, I'm pursuing other interests.
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01-08-2010, 04:08 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Nowhere, 43N Latitude, NY
Posts: 9,037
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What a question!
If they even asked, I think it would take exactly 1 nanosecond to say NO. And I'm being generous here.
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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
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01-08-2010, 04:43 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Hagersville
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What I was doing when I left not a chance. The computer stuff for a few years before that was fun while I was learning it but it got old quickly so no to it. My first job after college was technically challenging, we mostly arranged our own w@rk schedule, was part of a group of bright twenty something guys who were on the road three days a week in fast cars with grateful clients.The office support staff was a cluster of young lovelies who outnumbered us two or three to one. Twenty again even thirty I would do it again. It even counted toward pension.
Retirement is Good!!
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01-08-2010, 05:17 AM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 3,851
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bruce1
The office support staff was a cluster of young lovelies who outnumbered us two or three to one.
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Uh, let me reconsider ...
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01-08-2010, 06:00 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Washington, DC
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I wouldn't take any job so the direct answer is no. But like Walt34, if the question was, "if you had it to do over..." the answer is more difficult. I liked my career for the most part and it was better than 90% of the alternative work universes I could probably have toiled in. On the other hand, the idea of trying something completely different is appealing.
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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre -- Albert Camus
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01-08-2010, 06:06 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright
Posts: 2,847
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Walt34
Now? No, of course not.
But yeah, if I was 22 I'd do it again. That was a wild ride. I just feel lucky to have survived the experience.
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Absolutely agree. I loved hunting people, they're the most challenging and dangerous game ever created.
But I don't fancy riding the night shift again, at age 50, flipping a coin in the parking lot to see who drives and who rides. Or, as we called it, whose writing and whose fighting.
And to take the last assignment, or the choice of assignments that I was offered? No, no and hell no.
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. - Andrew Jackson
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