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Last Friday was my last day at work with TXDOT as a design specialist. 24 years and 11 months with them.
I'm actually semi retired will be working with a friend of mine selling old trucks and a few cars out of my property.
I don't think its sunk in yet what I've done, I still have this weird feeling I need to get to work on some highway plans we're behind on.
I have plenty to do around my place so I'm sure that feeling will pass.
Figures don't lie, But Liars figure
Assumption is the mother of mistakes
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Campfire Kahuna
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congrats..hoping to realize same in less than 10....
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Know what you mean. My first year not teaching. Very concerned what my replacement is teaching "my students".
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Campfire Kahuna
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Congratulations! Enjoy your retirement.
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I retired as a teacher just over 5 years ago. Never been busier and don't know how I ever had time to work.
Most people don't really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Last Friday was my last day at work with TXDOT as a design specialist. 24 years and 11 months with them.
I'm actually semi retired will be working with a friend of mine selling old trucks and a few cars out of my property.
I don't think its sunk in yet what I've done, I still have this weird feeling I need to get to work on some highway plans we're behind on.
I have plenty to do around my place so I'm sure that feeling will pass. It will!!! I retired from TxDOT in 2008! Congrats!!! Time to have fun!!
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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Congrats, quite the accomplishment. I retired from a job I started at a young age after 26 years. Now I do a part time job, and frequently tell them, "no, I don't really want to work full time."
My experience has been that once you leave the job you grew up learning, that other jobs don't inspire the same passion or sense of being as my previous job.
Good Luck in whatever your future holds for you.
"Put none but Americans on guard tonight."
-George Washington
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Campfire Ranger
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Yes, you ARE behind on the plans  Now just leave it to your followers to catch up what you've been goofing off on!
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Now I do a part time job, and frequently tell them, "no, I don't really want to work full time". Know the feeling. I do the same... and tell them the same... about 1/2 a dozen times a week.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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Congrats!
I thought I retired 10 years ago but when I put on my reading glasses it said "retreaded"
so busy I haven't been fishing in 2 years.
Oh I forgot, I stole a sunday and went Brookie fishing in the meadow while checking the high country graze.
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I retired a little over four years ago. I remember the shock of it well. Congratulations, it is way underrated.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Congratulations. I retired this past June and have been busy as hell. Loving it and I am certain you will as well.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Campfire Ranger
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Retirement, the best job I ever had.
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I hope retirement is everything that you wanted it to be!
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Congratulations, enjoy yourself.
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Campfire Regular
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Congratulations! Enjoy yourself. I've got a ways to go, but I know I will be ready when the time comes.
"There's no schadenfreude like Hillary Clinton schadenfreude."
- Tamara Keel
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Congratulations, I have been retired for almost twenty years now, still go into the S.O. every morning for a couple three hours doing data entry to relieve the deputies of the task. Spend an hour or two doing St. Vincent dePaul stuff for my council (I take care of the electronic and small appliance donations), now wife takes up a bunch of my time helping her out since she broke a wing. Life don't stop, you just don't get days off anymore!
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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I hope you've enjoyed your life, you needn't wait till retirement for that to occur.
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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Congratulations, I have been retired for almost twenty years now, still go into the S.O. every morning for a couple three hours doing data entry to relieve the deputies of the task. [...] T that is very good of you. I am sure, the deputies really appreatiate you doing it. Wishing your wife a speedy and full recovery. I have retirement all figured out - just 30 more years to go. LOL
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