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I retired a week ago with over 41 years with my employer, a long-established, privately-owned, US-based, global company. This company designs, builds and sells metal forming machines to users who produce components, such as fasteners and formed parts, as well as many other shapes of high-volume parts, which are used in the automotive, agricultural, commercial, consumer products, heavy truck, electronics, and ammunition sectors. I started working in Engineering and moved to sales about 15 years into my career, with the past 20 years in the role of a regional sales manager. About 50% of the time was spent traveling and visiting customers, mostly in the upper Midwest, mid-and-deep South, and a little international travel to Mexico and Europe. Our machine sales activity with major ammunition manufacturers and ammunition component-producing customers, primarily for forming shell cases, has really increased in the past 10 or so years, and I have had the good fortune of visiting and participating in capital acquisition projects with most of the major ammunition producers in North America, as well as attending and participating in SHOT and IWA. Having a little insight regarding activities and projects with these manufacturers was interesting, to say the least, and it appears that most producers stay tight-lipped when it comes to their own manufacturing processes. Also, it is worthwhile to note that there has been a considerable capex investment for component production expansion, and overall production volume increases in general, with most of the manufacturers in the past few years, which could eventually ease the availability issues. I am now looking forward to catching up on long-neglected projects, such as restorations/build for several older cars/parts cars which I have collected over the past 30 years, finishing the wood shop and garage, pursuing other hobbies, getting back to spending time at the range at the family farm, helping our kids with repairs around their houses, and just having the chance to jump on spur-of-the-moment activities for a day or a weekend. While I will miss the interaction with the ammunition manufacturing customers, I have come to the realization that life goes on and changes are inevitable. The upside is that now every day is Saturday.  | ||
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silence is acceptance |
Congratulations on your retirement. You don’t see many folks staying that many years with one employer. Well done. | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
Cool Stuff....Congratulations and enjoy a productive retirement!  ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Congratulations. Enjoy your retirement- You earned it. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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Objectively Reasonable |
Congratulations... well-deserved! | |||
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Congratulations and more importantly enjoy it to the fullest! Because son, it is what you are supposed to do. | |||
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Enjoy your retirement and congratulations on a great career. | |||
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Wonderful news!!! Hearty congratulations on your retirement  Always glad to hear when someone is able to do that. Sounds like all your Saturdays are going to be nice and busy  | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Congratulations & enjoy your retirement! "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated  |
Congrats! You've earned it. "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." looking forward to 4 years of TRUMP! | |||
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Congratulations, I'm right behind you. Retiring in November also after 41 years in the same business. Nationwide industrial distribution. Motion Industries. Like you I'm looking forward to it. JEREMIAH 33:3 | |||
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Congratulations and enjoy your retirement! “There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape." —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein | |||
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| Doing what I want, When I want, If I want!  |
Congrats! I had 38 years in with one company when I took early retirement at 57 years of age. Folks told me to hold out for the two more years, but I’d had it with my boss. We were all senior level folks on my team but he treated us like kindergarteners. My whole career was in IT. ******************************************** "On the other side of fear you will always find freedom" | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
Congrats on your retirement, Merc! Enjoy your free time. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Thanks for posting your story and insights. Congratulations & enjoy your retirement! "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Cogito Ergo Sum |
Congratulations on your retirement. Best thing I ever did. | |||
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| I don't know man I just got here myself  |
Congratulations on your retirement, I hope to be 22.8 months behind you! | |||
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| Green grass and high tides  |
Big congrats. I must say it is uplifting to hear of a retirement from a non gov career. A long lasting private employer. You sound proud of your accomplishment. As you well should. Enjoy a long and fulfilling retirement. I feel these situations are would made our country great. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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I am retired. I can usually name the month and the day of the week, but it's becoming harder, because I don't need to know nor do I care what they are. Friday is garbage day and some stores are closed on Sunday. I call always look at my smartphone. I would probably fail the "What is today's date?" test for mental acuity at a hospital. | |||
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| Was that you or the dog?  |
That is awesome.Always great to hear. I am closing in on it. Hoping to make a similar post in a year or so. ___________________________ "Opinions vary" -Dalton | |||
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