Just signed my retirement papers.....

by Miles , CIVITATES AMERICAE, Thursday, November 20, 2014, 15:18 (3597 days ago) @ Harry O-1

Welcome to the club. I've done it twice and it won't happen again.

Words of wisdom?

Remember this. You are not - NOT - who your are by what you did as a job.

We had too, too many of the guys who retired when I was a young pup wind up dead within 2 to 2 1/2 years after they retired from long careers of 35 or more years.

I, and others, believe that they had defined themselves by what they did, and when they weren't doing it anymore....... I decided early on not to do the same and I hope you have not done it either.

I even wound up with a second career (early retired in May) doing something that had absolutely not one thing to do with the first career, but what I really liked to do as well.

I'm not saying you have to find something else to do. Me? I'm assiduously working on being gloriously bored to death for the rest of my life. But that job you just walked away from was simply that, a job.