I retired today after 36 years-yikes!

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November 12, 2021, 11:21 PM

adobesig

I retired today after 36 years-yikes!

I am happy for the opportunity to provide my talents for my country at a national laboratory. I am proud of the work we've done over the years and content to let others carry on. Time for a road trip and my next.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

November 12, 2021, 11:26 PM

12131

"national laboratory" in New Mexico can only be Los Alamos. Congratulations!

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November 12, 2021, 11:56 PM

mr kablammo

Go for a hike in the Sandia National Forest, smell the Butterscotch Pine at the top of the trail. Eat half a ton of enchiladas with green sauce, half a ton of enchiladas with red sauce, half a ton of ice cream stuffed sopapillas, half a ton of biscochitos, and sleep for a week.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.

November 13, 2021, 12:18 AM

RaiseHal

Welcome to the everydays a Saturday crowd; didn’t work today, don’t work tomorrow.

It's a shame that youth is wasted on the young --- Mark Twain

Anyone who is not a liberal by age 20 has no heart; anyone who is not a conservative by age 40 has no brain---Winston Churchill

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looking forward to 4 years of TRUMP!

November 13, 2021, 12:46 AM

flesheatingvirus

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Originally posted by 12131:
"national laboratory" in New Mexico can only be Los Alamos.

Oh, snap.

He retired from SNL, not LANL. You can tell from his avatar (the Z machine) and the fact that he didn't put whether he has a PhD in his signature. That's like a foreigner mistaking one of us for a Canadian. SNL is by far the superior national lab.

adobesig: what org were you in? Congrats, BTW.

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November 13, 2021, 06:33 AM

urbanwarrior238

You might have some 'missing the work/people' for a few months but you will enjoy every day in retirement. Congrats

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November 13, 2021, 07:29 AM

Pipe Smoker

Congrats! You will like it!

I retired from my engineering career at age 70. Until a few months before, the thought of retirement hadn’t entered my mind. Once it did I could scarcely wait.

I have liked it!

Serious about crackers.

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November 13, 2021, 07:41 AM

greg1147

Congratulations
I am 73, 74 tomorrow retired when I was 70 now I do whatever I like. Enjoy it.