Good to see you posting here again, Joni.
What do you do for a living?
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NFrameFred
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Retired, but in a previous life it depended on the day, and sometimes the time of day.
Was a surveyor, mining engineer, cartographer, photogrammetrist, civil engineer, flight navigator, supervisor, draftsman, aerial photographer and chief cook and bottle washer. In my spare time I dabbled in gunsmithing, photography, song writing, semi-pro musician and itinerant carpenter, electrician and plumber.
Now I'm retired. I do what my wife tells me and I know things . . . .
Was a surveyor, mining engineer, cartographer, photogrammetrist, civil engineer, flight navigator, supervisor, draftsman, aerial photographer and chief cook and bottle washer. In my spare time I dabbled in gunsmithing, photography, song writing, semi-pro musician and itinerant carpenter, electrician and plumber.
Now I'm retired. I do what my wife tells me and I know things . . . .
Doug M.
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I am a government lawyer. I am in a county prosecutor's office, civil division, but most of my background is criminal side so about half of my work is the civil side of criminal justice stuff. I sometimes help with criminal division stuff like appeals. I was a reserve cop for about 20 years, first in Illinois, then here. Retired from that in 2012.
I'll be eligible to retire in just under two years, but will likely go a year or two past for various reasons, one of which is the hoped for transplant.
I'll be eligible to retire in just under two years, but will likely go a year or two past for various reasons, one of which is the hoped for transplant.
I am a changing room attendant at Victoria's Secret.
What a sick, sick, sick lucky dog! I think
I've spent the last 40 years as a State Highway Inspector. Plan on retiring in 2025.
I ran printing presses for 32 years. Couple years on sheet fed, several years on heat set, and the last 14 on a newspaper press.
Last job I had in Cincinnati was on a brand new Goss Urbanite. We ran all the Butler County newspapers, City Beat magazine and the Daily Racing Form.
Moved to Florida to work at the St, Augustine Record on a little 1950's completely rebuilt Goss Urbanite. It was like going back in history. Had to stop the press to make a roll change.
Got forced into disability retirement at 50. Best thing that's ever happened to me.
Last job I had in Cincinnati was on a brand new Goss Urbanite. We ran all the Butler County newspapers, City Beat magazine and the Daily Racing Form.
Moved to Florida to work at the St, Augustine Record on a little 1950's completely rebuilt Goss Urbanite. It was like going back in history. Had to stop the press to make a roll change.
Got forced into disability retirement at 50. Best thing that's ever happened to me.
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bluetopper
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Superintendent for a highway construction contractor here in northeast Texas. We stay out of the urban areas and I don't work near the hours I used to.
MetalMan
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North American Sales & Marketing Manager for an overseas principal. Responsible for 5 business units in US, Canada and Mexico.
jag312
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Retired after many happy years in law enforcement, although I have mixed feelings about the time I spent with the Alameda County Sheriff's Department. Alameda County is the East side of San Francisco Bay. Now I feed my cats and my horse. I tend to my fruit trees and grape vines. When I feel motivated, I tinker with my cars.
GF
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41 years in healthcare for me.
Retired last November but went back two days a week at a pulmonary clinic.
Not old enough quite yet for Medicare so the part time gig is good for insurance.
16 hours a week is still Retired compared to 60+!
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Retired last November but went back two days a week at a pulmonary clinic.
Not old enough quite yet for Medicare so the part time gig is good for insurance.
16 hours a week is still Retired compared to 60+!
.I was in the cosmetics industry with Maybelline from 1978 to 1987. Went to work for the Dr. Scholl's Footcare Products division of the same corporation that owned Maybelline in 1987. In 1988 I was transferred to corporate headquarters in NJ.
In 1991 I called my brother that was living stateside and told him I was moving back to TN and that I was sending him an airline ticket so he could help me pack up and move as I had taken a position as Director of Marketing for a major Southeast U.S. wholesale food and drug distributor.
On day 97 of my employment with the now defunct food/drug wholesaler I was called into the president's office and instructed to terminate everyone in the marketing department. I said "No." If I was going to terminate everyone in the department, they sure as hell didn't need a department head. Long story, short version, I had an employment contract. They could terminate me within the first 90 days, and I would have no recourse. After 90 days If I was terminated within five years, they owed me five years' salary.
That five years' salary allowed me the opportunity to purchase the beginning acreage of my farm. I'm now up to 640 contiguous acres and 60 disjoined acres. Most of it is standing timber and swamp. We plant about 200 acres to cover the bank note, property taxes and utilities in the house and barns and the rest of the property is used as hunting lands.
My main source of income for the last 31 years has been working in the glass tinting/coating industry as a 3M Authorized Dealer in the Memphis area.
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In 1991 I called my brother that was living stateside and told him I was moving back to TN and that I was sending him an airline ticket so he could help me pack up and move as I had taken a position as Director of Marketing for a major Southeast U.S. wholesale food and drug distributor.
On day 97 of my employment with the now defunct food/drug wholesaler I was called into the president's office and instructed to terminate everyone in the marketing department. I said "No." If I was going to terminate everyone in the department, they sure as hell didn't need a department head. Long story, short version, I had an employment contract. They could terminate me within the first 90 days, and I would have no recourse. After 90 days If I was terminated within five years, they owed me five years' salary.
That five years' salary allowed me the opportunity to purchase the beginning acreage of my farm. I'm now up to 640 contiguous acres and 60 disjoined acres. Most of it is standing timber and swamp. We plant about 200 acres to cover the bank note, property taxes and utilities in the house and barns and the rest of the property is used as hunting lands.
My main source of income for the last 31 years has been working in the glass tinting/coating industry as a 3M Authorized Dealer in the Memphis area.
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