DRiP Guy
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- Nov 7, 2006
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I honestly don't think I will have one moment of identity crisis when I lay down my responsibility for multi-million dollar budgets and dozens of direct reports, and the authority to make decisions that took me almost thirty years to work up to be entrusted to make. I am very ready to be just another guy in the supermarket, to everyone else. But I understand it might be very traumatic for some folks, esp military.
I am not sure I buy the idea that Astronut Lisa Nowak's weirdness was related to her being over the hump of her own career or not, but maybe it's a factor...
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=119757&ran=241289
I am not sure I buy the idea that Astronut Lisa Nowak's weirdness was related to her being over the hump of her own career or not, but maybe it's a factor...
I have seen command master chiefs deflate at their retirements as if they’ve lost 20 pounds just standing at the podium. I’ve seen a submarine captain crumple after walking across the brow of his boat for the last time.
Despite the solid Transition Assistance Program provided by the military, retirees in their 40s often lose their emotional footing for the first couple of years after leaving the service. One retired chief told me it was as if the foundation under his house sank 10 inches on one side so that everything heavy tipped away from the walls.
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=119757&ran=241289