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FE Power Forums => Non-FE Discussion Forum => Topic started by: AlanCasida on May 28, 2020, 02:34:52 PM
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After 42 years in the electrical trade and working the last 32 yrs, 7mths at The Boeing Company-now-Spirit Aerosystems as an industrial electrician/CNC technician, I have called it a day and am embarking on the next chapter of my life. 8)
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Good luck.
You will be lost for a while until you get used to it.
Greg
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Good luck.
You will be lost for a while until you get used to it.
Greg
Thanks! I think it will take a little while to grasp the idea that I will (hopefully) never have to in to a job again unless I just want to, since I have always worked,
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Congrats from another soon-to-be retired aerospace worker! Are you in the Seattle area or Wichita or? I'll be retiring at the end of June after 34 years of wind tunnel testing for Lockheed Martin just outside of Atlanta.
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Congrats Alan.
I just turned 65 the other day and I must say, this little look into retirement for the last 3 months courtesy of China has me thinking I’m going to like it. It’s really nice that if you don’t get a job done on your car you just finish the next day. No worries about having to get to work.
Just have enough projects to stay busy is what I’m thinking.
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Congrats Alan, I think you will LOVE being retired.
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Congrats Alan! Are you doing the rocky mountain race week this year? I know you had spoken of it in the past.
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Congrats, Alan. Good time to start a fitness program, if you haven't already. Sedentary complacency can often lead to waking up face-first in the planter in front of your porch, the neighborhood kids jeering at you while their dogs add their two cents to the liter of tequila your bladder geysered into your cheap Chinese jeans four hours ago. Not that that has ever happened to me. Nope. Not me. Just sayin' as an example. Happened to a friend. Yep, that's it.
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I just turned 65 the other day.......
Damn old farts, always one step ahead. I turned 64 yesterday, but you're darn tootin' I'll have caught up to you by next year. I gots me some nitrous; I assume that's what a skull and crossbones on this bottle means.
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I assume that's what a skull and crossbones on this bottle means.
Nitrous for the soul
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Thanks for all the well wishes. I will answer the questions posed here.
I work(ed) at the Wichita facility
I am not sure if I'll make to RMRW. I have yet to make it to the track due to the ongoing Corona virus thing. Also the transition to retirement requires me to go on COBRA insurance for a little while and I won't get my info until probably the middle of June so I am not sure I want to do a lot of risky activities, like drag racing every day for a week, until I get all that squared away.
I am 61, will turn 62 in November and am already fairly active and eat right...for the most part so I am also H/W proportionate and don't smoke or drink. Also I DO NOT wear or even own any Chinese clothing ;) . I buy USA made stuff whenever I can.
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Alan: Congrat's. I was fortunate enough to retire 17+years ago at the age of 55 after 33+ years at MichCon Gas Company in Detroit,.
At least in the utility industry they gave both my wife and I (we each retired before we married ) full insurance coverage plus full retirements.
We both are runners and that keeps us healthy. I still run about 700 miles a year usually 5.5 miles 4 days a week. But I do drink red wine to maintain my sanity.
FE's keep me on the search for more in life. Please keep exercising.
Richard >>> FERoadster
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Thanks for all the well wishes. I will answer the questions posed here.
I work(ed) at the Wichita facility
I am not sure if I'll make to RMRW. I have yet to make it to the track due to the ongoing Corona virus thing. Also the transition to retirement requires me to go on COBRA insurance for a little while and I won't get my info until probably the middle of June so I am not sure I want to do a lot of risky activities, like drag racing every day for a week, until I get all that squared away.
I am 61, will turn 62 in November and am already fairly active and eat right...for the most part so I am also H/W proportionate and don't smoke or drink. Also I DO NOT wear or even own any Chinese clothing ;) . I buy USA made stuff whenever I can.
I worked at BMAC Wichita when I graduated from KU in Mechanical Engineering. Worked there from 1984 to 1988. Good times in Do-dah!
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COBRA insurance? You don't think that's a coincidence do you, Alan? COBRA? Seems to me that racing should be REQUIRED under COBRA insurance! ;D
Congrats on your retirement. Something tells me that you'll find plenty to keep you busy. I do hope you will make it to Drag Week this year.
People don't realize it, but you can actually find clothing still made in the U.S. Several years ago, it took me a while to find suppliers for everything, but I've managed to get almost all my clothes made in the U.S.
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Alan, +1 with all! I think you did the right thing and now have the rest of your life to look forward to. Agree with Jay, you're going to like it. I've been retired 5 years now from the petroleum industry and it seems like my timing was spot-on. Advise received when I retired was 1. Have something to retire to, and 2. Stay physically and mentally active. Our FEs can provide a lot of those challenges, always something to learn.
Our daughter just hit her 15th anniversary at Boeing in Seattle working in Flight Controls. I hope she can make it as long as you did!
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Congrats. You will work harder now than you ever did, but it will be the most fun. That is what I hear anyway.
Just something to think about, but you may try an insurance broker, or do some research on memberships and pooling. You may be able to get better insurance coverage at less cost by joining a pool or a group.
Sometimes it works sometimes it does not but something to consider to keep costs down.
Again, good luck and enjoy every darn second of it.
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Fantastic Alan.Time to move North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTOfOPEQ8HM&feature=emb_logo
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Congratulations!!
People not retired all ways say it will take a while to get used to retirement.
I was used to it the next day and have not looked back.
In a short while you won't understand how you had time to work.
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Fantastic Alan.Time to move North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTOfOPEQ8HM&feature=emb_logo
Hey Steve. I was thinking about moving here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODwjsN5ER6c
But you present a pretty good case...as long as there is still some looting left to get in on. ::)
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Well earned - enjoy! Got 2 1/2 more years before we can think about it.
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There is a difference in being unemployed and being retired. No unemployment benefits available when you're retired. I am still waiting to actually be retired, though. Joe-JDC
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Steve, does the current Minneapolis promotional film feature the friendly people who gather on Lake St to roast weenies and marshmellows?
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Congratulations. Time to enjoy life’s next chapter.
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Steve, does the current Minneapolis promotional film feature the friendly people who gather on Lake St to roast weenies and marshmellows?
Hot dish for those who say youbetcha.Pork rinds for those that don't
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Steve, does the current Minneapolis promotional film feature the friendly people who gather on Lake St to roast weenies and marshmellows?
Hot dish for those who say youbetcha.Pork rinds for those that don't
Da AutoZone in Minny sho nuff be servin' up da hot dishes. Real hot, you betcha.
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Retired at 62 (health reasons) and love every minute of it. Everyday is Saturday. Like it's been said, you'll wonder how you ever had time to go to work.
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Retired at 62 (health reasons) and love every minute of it. Everyday is Saturday. Like it's been said, you'll wonder how you ever had time to go to work.
I retired about 4 years ago(From Boeing Commercial Aircraft, I was an inspector on the 787 program in Everett WA). I have to agree with Lowrider on wondering how I had time for a job sentiment. I love having the day to do my little projects.
Enjoy your new life.
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yep,you can add me to another boeing laid off now retired!tooling/parts inspector for 33 years at huntington beach.so now i work harder at home on my junk than i ever did at work!
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Reading the title, I was glad to find out it was your choice to move to the next level versus working for a company that went under or reduced staff. Enjoy!
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Man I’m enjoying my forced time off. Retirement can’t come to soon.
Can pick which job I’m in the mood for for the day.
Besides the mustang I’m doing some long neglected work on my ‘74 4x short box besides getting more done on the wagon.
This is fun.
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I cannot put into words how much I love being retired.
After 40 years of working on Volvo and Mercedes Benz automobiles my distaste for the modern automobile was getting unbearable. Having my own shop for 21 of those 40 years was ok, but my interest in spending half my day on a laptop jumping through hoops getting check engine and service lights to go off, dealing with maddened customers battling the California Smog Check System, and the overall unfriendliness to business in California, the interest in keeping the shop had waned years ago. We had done well financially and I was able to retire at 58, 2 years ago.
I brought my tools home but threw ALL of my scan tools into the garbage can. Only the folks that have known me over the years know that I was ever an auto tech. When asked what I did before retirement I say the same thing that Maxwell Smart would say...I was in the greeting card business. We take my wife's Buick La Crosse to the steelership for service and I just say "fix it".
I am never bored unless I choose to be. I do eat too much and exercise too little. I was done long before I hung up the wrenches so I had nothing to get used to except for enjoying life daily. It was like moving to a resort and doing what you want every day, 'cept when the missus tells you otherwise.
BTW, Mrs.-T still works, from home, and says she likes it...a concept that is completely foreign to me.
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21 days left in the USAF for me and I will hang up my "birds" and be a civilian...
Not really able to retire completely, but the idea is crazy to me right now, haven't wrapped my arms around not being in the military after 25.5 years.
Maybe I will be a Walmart greeter or maybe even wipe the carts, sounds like job security to me!
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21 days left in the USAF for me and I will hang up my "birds" and be a civilian...
Not really able to retire completely, but the idea is crazy to me right now, haven't wrapped my arms around not being in the military after 25.5 years.
Maybe I will be a Walmart greeter or maybe even wipe the carts, sounds like job security to me!
Congratulations and Thank You for your service! I had gleaned hints that retirement was closer than farther but had no idea it was this close
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After 40 years of working on Volvo and Mercedes Benz automobiles my distaste for the modern automobile was getting unbearable.
I can't overstate how true this statement is! I absolutely hate modern cars, and I'm sick of working on pretty much anything "modern". Doesn't matter if it's a lawnmower, a car or a tractor, none of them are designed in a way to be worked on easily, or at all >:(
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I'm retired from cars and FEs. Too much damn work for an old fart. Reloading and shooting is more my speed now.
(https://i.imgur.com/XOd63qS.jpg)
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I can't imagine life without getting up and going to work, I have been employed steadily for 46yrs. That said I'm planning on retiring at the end of this year and I'm counting down the days. Seems like time has slowed down to a crawl LOL. I'm most looking forward to having enough time to finish my car. There is just not enough hours on the weekends to fit in car building with the regular house maintenance and honey do list.
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Nice group there Afret :)
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I figure I would work right up until 20 minutes before my funeral. However, after being shut down for 10 weeks by the wonderful governor of Penisylvania, I could get used to being retired. Two more years.