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05-06-2012, 06:55 PM
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#401
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 805
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Kayaking sounds like a great kick off! Congratulations-- so exciting.
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05-07-2012, 08:25 AM
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#402
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Broomfield
Posts: 90
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BellBarbara - thanks. You crack me up - "Mind sucking" - what a perfect description!
Kayaking with a nice picnic? Priceless! These types of activities should certainly help MrBellBarbara to settle down.
Have a blast!
Pete
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05-11-2012, 06:53 PM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Ocala
Posts: 49
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Well, after 31 years, 1 month and 13 days, I finally made it! The past seven weeks have gone by very fast. I stayed busy until 15:30 today, then cleaned up my office. I had to terminate myself because my boss was out of town as well as the rest of his minions. I filled out my exit interview using the "suggested questions" on the back of the form, had security terminate my access, then gave my security card and corporate credit card to the sec... I mean, administrative assistant, and had her walk me out the door. At 16:45 I was a free man. Let the games begin.
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05-11-2012, 07:57 PM
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#404
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 406
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Congratulations Doug! Enjoy your freedom.
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05-12-2012, 06:03 AM
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#405
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 805
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Congratulations, Doug.
I have 8 more working days. When I began teaching, i had a 4 digit # of teaching days ahead of me. Having a ONE digit ahead now blows me away.
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05-12-2012, 06:04 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 392
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YAY Doug!
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05-12-2012, 11:58 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 1,714
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I should put my foot in the door here. I'm 62 and figured I wanted to quit work this year, 40 years of employment is enough, etc.
But WHEN shall be my last day? Sometime in the fall I decided a while back.
In a separate frame of mind, I booked another dive trip to Bonaire, leaving on Saturday, October 27 for two weeks. So then it came to me that's IT, Friday, 10/26 shall be the end of the road.
Still too far away to say anything at the office if I want to keep my engineering work interesting over the summer. I do think I'll have a chat with my boss and with HR just after Labor Day to put this into motion.
Unless I chicken out...
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05-12-2012, 12:05 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 40,592
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GT1 Doug
Well, after 31 years, 1 month and 13 days, I finally made it! The past seven weeks have gone by very fast. I stayed busy until 15:30 today, then cleaned up my office. I had to terminate myself because my boss was out of town as well as the rest of his minions. I filled out my exit interview using the "suggested questions" on the back of the form, had security terminate my access, then gave my security card and corporate credit card to the sec... I mean, administrative assistant, and had her walk me out the door. At 16:45 I was a free man. Let the games begin.
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Congratulations Doug and welcome to the club!
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05-21-2012, 07:00 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
Posts: 17,173
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Just skipped a weekend get-together meeting designed to discuss changes in next year's school schedule. One person asked me "Won't you miss having input?" Ummm.... No.
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Comparison is the thief of joy
The worst decisions are usually made in times of anger and impatience.
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05-21-2012, 01:45 PM
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#410
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Blue Springs
Posts: 47
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After 31 years I gave my last final... entered all grades! Turned in my badge, purchase card, keys, and laptop...out the door! It Is Finally Here!
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05-21-2012, 02:03 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 40,592
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Originally Posted by Ksols
After 31 years I gave my last final... entered all grades! Turned in my badge, purchase card, keys, and laptop...out the door! It Is Finally Here!
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Congratulations!
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05-23-2012, 05:27 AM
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#412
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 805
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Congratulations, Ksol. How have these first few days of retirement feeling?
My last day of w*rk is TODAY!
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05-23-2012, 06:31 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 2,360
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuckanut
Just skipped a weekend get-together meeting designed to discuss changes in next year's school schedule. One person asked me "Won't you miss having input?" Ummm.... No.
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Incredible!
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"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive". Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (1878)
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05-23-2012, 09:53 AM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Blue Springs
Posts: 47
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Originally Posted by ohyes
Congratulations, Ksol. How have these first few days of retirement feeling?
My last day of w*rk is TODAY!
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Congrats. Savor it, then get out the door and start living. I can't answer how it feels, I'm still kind of numb. Last night I stayed up until I was tired, not some self mandated bedtime!
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05-23-2012, 07:04 PM
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#415
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 805
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Very surprisingly (to me), i cried at the end of my last work day.
After dinner out and a few beers, I am back on track. Yes, SAVOR.
School's out....foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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05-23-2012, 07:33 PM
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#416
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,474
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Congratulations, ohyes!!
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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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05-23-2012, 08:44 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,608
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Congrats Ksols and ohyes!
I predict you are gonna LOVE retirement.
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05-24-2012, 05:43 AM
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#418
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 2,360
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ohyes
Very surprisingly (to me), i cried at the end of my last work day.
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It's natural to feel regret and nostalgia as a door closes behind you. We humans are all conflicted beings!
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"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive". Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (1878)
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05-24-2012, 06:09 AM
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#419
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Palma de Mallorca
Posts: 1,419
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Today is my last full day at work. (I'm going to come in on a couple of Fridays in June as there is some non-delegatable paperwork that needs signing; don't worry, I didn't take them out of my remaining leave entitlement.)
I posted this on my Facebook status:
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It's my last full day at work. I hope it works out better for me than for the typical American police officer, as depicted in movies.
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Someone replied with this great clip (contains profanity):
I will make my official "Class of 2012" joining post here on my official last day on the payroll (June 30, or rather, June 29, being the Friday before).
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05-24-2012, 09:38 AM
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#420
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
Posts: 17,173
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BigNick, Thanks for the video. It made my day!
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The worst decisions are usually made in times of anger and impatience.
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