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Re: It's been a year... 

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...when I first retired I would wake up early just like I had to go to work. Go down and get a cup of coffee at the local DD and watch the fools on the interstate trying to get to work. Kinda like that guy in the commercial ya see on tv all the time.




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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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