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Re: It's been a year... 

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YES DEAR YES DEAR,,WHATEVER YOU SAY DEAR ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, LOL> I hear ya DE. Good luck with all your goals. I dont know if I can ever NOT work on something. I would die of boredom!!!!!!!!!




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It's been a year...
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Tue, 16 Apr 19 6:57 AM 		Msg. 30359 of 62138

I moved to New Hampshire a year ago today. It's been a good year. But, as I told my wife, it still doesn't feel like I'm retired. It feels like, "Well, your two week vacation is over. Gotta go back to work tomorrow." And then I subconsciously cringe with dread. I'm looking forward to losing that feeling. I hope I will.
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I read an article today about Jack Ma of China and the 12-hour-day, 6-day work week its technical firms don't require but do expect. (See link below). I can relate. In my busiest times, I worked 17 hour days for nearly 3 months, then dropped to "only" 14 hour days... SEVEN day work weeks. That went on from mid-January until my very first day off, July 4th. I once worked over 130 hours in a week. And I worked a 36 hour "day" that had me so dazed that I didn't even know what I was doing. Oddly enough, that was the time in my career that I most enjoyed. It felt worthwhile.
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The time in Virginia, on the other hand, was miserable. I never liked what I was doing and, with the hours down to a normal work week, I lost a sense that what I was doing was important. I had bosses who ranged from indifferent to downright evil. I couldn't get out of there soon enough.
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My goal this year is to put that behind me, to start phase 3 of my "career" and end it on a more satisfying note some years from now. Fingers crossed that it happens as planned. I have to say that I'm so happy and fortunate to have a wonderful, supportive wife who's willing to stick with me through it all... I love her to death and don't know where I'd be without her.

http://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-china/index.html

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