Any advice or stories of dealing with the ambivalence of leaving a great organization welcomed.
Hah! I fired up my Fostex X-15 4-channel cassette a few months back to digitize a few tapes I made in my home studio back in the 80s. Some day I may edit them, and manage to pick out a few that aren't too embarrassing. It was fun (and scary) to listen to this stuff. There are a few songs I played that for the life of me I didn't know I knew how to play. Weird to hear your voice and instrument and not recalling ever playing/singing that song (it's not like I have a wide repertoire or anything!)....
Way back in the last millennium, I bought a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder for my home studio. Of course, for the past several years I've been using a laptop and DAW software instead of tape, but was still using the mixing portion of the Tascam. ...
Hah! I fired up my Fostex X-15 4-channel cassette a few months back to digitize a few tapes I made in my home studio back in the 80s. Some day I may edit them, and manage to pick out a few that aren't too embarrassing. It was fun (and scary) to listen to this stuff. There are a few songs I played that for the life of me I didn't know I knew how to play. Weird to hear your voice and instrument and not recalling ever playing/singing that song (it's not like I have a wide repertoire or anything!).
I've got an 8 channel Yamaha mixer, so I'm set there. I really need to start digging into the computer way of doing this in the current century (I did some midi stuff way back then as well as live multitasking).
-ERD50
I've been trying to sell a small folding boat and the motorcycle for months. Sold both today before noon.
The guy who bought the boat drove 3+ hours to get here and he rang the bell at just after 10 AM.
We went to the gym and then out to lunch to celebrate. Two less items (and a lot of accessory stuff) are mostly gone, the rest will be gone tomorrow. It was raining so the guy who bought the bike left it in the garage here and will pick it up tomorrow when he has his license plate. I canceled the ads and the insurance on it.
Glad that's all done.
That must feel like a roller coaster ride. Brings back memories It sure does help to have a plan like you do.Came dangerously close to resigning yesterday.
....Instead of my VP correcting him, he agrees with everything the nut job says and says "I'll get it fixed". I just about blew a gasket. ....
Came dangerously close to resigning yesterday.
Being FI is awesome but it has its danger side as well. I work for the company that is splitting into 2 fortune 50 companies and I run global internal communications for the financial separation.
Yesterday one of the senior vp muckety mucks calls an emergency meeting to talk about everything that's wrong with the comms plan. Every single thing he brought up is in the plan but surprise, surprise he hasn't read it!
Instead of my VP correcting him, he agrees with everything the nut job says and says "I'll get it fixed". I just about blew a gasket. After the call was over I called my VP to let him know that he was wrong in his approach and I didn't appreciate being thrown under the bus.
This time last year I would have probably kept my mouth shut but knowing I'm a very short timer gave me the freedom to speak my mind.
Just started a 4 day weekend; headed to a Pickleball tournament in CA so no more thinking about w@rk till next Tuesday.
Came dangerously close to resigning yesterday.
Being FI is awesome but it has its danger side as well. I work for the company that is splitting into 2 fortune 50 companies and I run global internal communications for the financial separation.
Yesterday one of the senior vp muckety mucks calls an emergency meeting to talk about everything that's wrong with the comms plan. Every single thing he brought up is in the plan but surprise, surprise he hasn't read it!
Instead of my VP correcting him, he agrees with everything the nut job says and says "I'll get it fixed". I just about blew a gasket. After the call was over I called my VP to let him know that he was wrong in his approach and I didn't appreciate being thrown under the bus.
This time last year I would have probably kept my mouth shut but knowing I'm a very short timer gave me the freedom to speak my mind.
Just started a 4 day weekend; headed to a Pickleball tournament in CA so no more thinking about w@rk till next Tuesday.
Not even a tinge of sadness when the motorcycle goes?
You are much more diplomatic that I am. I would have interrupted and corrected the complaining VP on every point to make him look like the ignorant a-hole in front of everyone ... diplomatically of course.