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  • BadeMillsap
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2005
    • 868
    • Bulverde, Texas, USA.
    • Grizzly G1023SL
    #1

    ... and thanks for all the fish ...

    After 36 years and 1 month I announced my retirement from IBM today effective 7/31/2010.

    Wow ... did I just type that?

    I am looking forward to the change with a touch of trepidation along with great expectations ... it will mean a significant reduction in 'disposable' income but my wife and I have worked closely with a financial planner for over 12 years and feel confident we can adjust and are as prepared as can be hoped for.

    It's been an interesting ride ... I've seen and had a hand in some incredible changes brought about by the introduction of computers and information technology into the mainstream of human society. I can't wait to see what happens next in that wide open frontier.

    I expect to have significant more "shop time" now and look forward to that ...

    Look out retirement ... here I come!!!

    Bade
    "Like an old desperado, I paint the town beige ..." REK
    Bade Millsap
    Bulverde, Texas
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    • Bruce Cohen
      Veteran Member
      • May 2003
      • 2698
      • Nanuet, NY, USA.
      • BT3100
      #2
      Good for you,

      Best of retirement time.

      Bruce
      "Western civilization didn't make all men equal,
      Samuel Colt did"

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        • atgcpaul
          Veteran Member
          • Aug 2003
          • 4055
          • Maryland
          • Grizzly 1023SLX
          #3
          I'm jealous. Enjoy your new found time.

          Paul

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            • SHADOWFOX
              Veteran Member
              • May 2005
              • 1232
              • IL, USA.
              • DELTA 36-675
              #4
              Congratulations, Bade! Extremely jealous with the amount of shop time you'll have and not having to deal with the rat race.
              Chris

              "The first key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth." -Pierre Abelard 11th Century philosopher.

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                • LinuxRandal
                  Veteran Member
                  • Feb 2005
                  • 4889
                  • Independence, MO, USA.
                  • bt3100
                  #5
                  Congratulations on leaving I've Been Moved. Are you asking for a retirement towel?
                  She couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod, and the bathroom. We had to go back for her.........................Twice.

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                    • BadeMillsap
                      Senior Member
                      • Dec 2005
                      • 868
                      • Bulverde, Texas, USA.
                      • Grizzly G1023SL
                      #6
                      ... and thanks for all the fish ... or ... announcing my independence ...

                      Thanks guys ...

                      LinuxR .. I'm an odd breed within the company history ... only actually lived in 2 places ... the last for almost 29 years ... it's very uncommon
                      "Like an old desperado, I paint the town beige ..." REK
                      Bade Millsap
                      Bulverde, Texas
                      => Bade's Personal Web Log
                      => Bade's Lutherie Web Log

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                        • TB Roye
                          Veteran Member
                          • Jan 2004
                          • 2969
                          • Sacramento, CA, USA.
                          • BT3100
                          #7
                          Bade

                          Congrats on the retirement. Enjoy you have earened it. As far as shop time? You might find your self busier retired than working. The difference is. It is your choice. If you want, when you want and how you want, or maybe how LOML may want, but even that isn't so bad. I get up just as early but now I have a few cups of coffee and read the paper at my pace and I may shave and comb my what is left of my hair. But thats what baseball caps are for.

                          Have fun and enjoy.

                          Tom

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                            • Uncle Cracker
                              The Full Monte
                              • May 2007
                              • 7091
                              • Sunshine State
                              • BT3000
                              #8
                              Congratulations, and kudos to you for being able to retire when you wanted to, instead of all of us poor schmucks who have been forcibly retired (or nearly so) by the economy...

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                                • pierhogunn2
                                  Established Member
                                  • Sep 2009
                                  • 134
                                  #9
                                  Wow, congratulations... I still have another 28 years left before I can make this post for my self... Enjoy your self-directed time

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                                    • natausch
                                      Established Member
                                      • Aug 2009
                                      • 436
                                      • Aurora, IL
                                      • BT3000 - 15A
                                      #10
                                      Tell them you'll be a work from home, two days a week consultant. Used to work with a gentleman who tried to retire at least five times before management finally got the hint.

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                                        • frumper64
                                          Established Member
                                          • Feb 2004
                                          • 376
                                          • Garland, Tx, USA.
                                          #11
                                          Congratulations, and by the way, I loved the topic title. Haven't thought about that book in quite a while
                                          Jim
                                          64sedan_at_gmail.com

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                                            • L. D. Jeffries
                                              Senior Member
                                              • Dec 2005
                                              • 747
                                              • Russell, NY, USA.
                                              • Ryobi BT3000
                                              #12
                                              Congrats on pulling the plug. Only problem I found is that after the first month of being "free" is the mistake of wondering if its Saturday and is that why your not getting ready for work. NEXT, you'll be so busy that you will wonder how you ever had time to work for someone else! Enjoy!
                                              RuffSawn
                                              Nothin' smells better than fresh sawdust!

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                                                • billwmeyer
                                                  Veteran Member
                                                  • Feb 2003
                                                  • 1858
                                                  • Weir, Ks, USA.
                                                  • BT3000
                                                  #13
                                                  Congratulations! I am so envious! If I could retire tomorrow I would have called in sick today. I have somewhere between 2 and 6 years left to go.

                                                  Enjoy!

                                                  bill
                                                  "I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in."-Kenny Rogers

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                                                    • BadeMillsap
                                                      Senior Member
                                                      • Dec 2005
                                                      • 868
                                                      • Bulverde, Texas, USA.
                                                      • Grizzly G1023SL
                                                      #14
                                                      Thanks guys!!!

                                                      Yeah it's looking better and better all the time ...
                                                      "Like an old desperado, I paint the town beige ..." REK
                                                      Bade Millsap
                                                      Bulverde, Texas
                                                      => Bade's Personal Web Log
                                                      => Bade's Lutherie Web Log

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                                                        • bigstick509
                                                          Veteran Member
                                                          • Dec 2004
                                                          • 1227
                                                          • Macomb, MI, USA.
                                                          • BT3100
                                                          #15

                                                          Mike

                                                          "It's not the things you don't know that will hurt you, it's the things you think you know that ain't so." - Mark Twain

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