My husband was an engineer, building aluminum plants. The first 25 years
we were married, we moved 36 times, including two years each in Iran and
Venezuela. When he left the corporate world and started his own consulting
firm, we could have lived anywhere and chose South Carolina.
Where in South Carolina are you moving?
Tina
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Wonderful! I started doing what you're doing in 2002 at age 59. By
> that time I had formally retired from 30 years of working at IBM plus
> another 7 years at two other companies. Unfortunately, I didn't realize
> for another year (of unsuccessful job hunting) that I had actually
> retired at 59. :-)
>
> By pure happenstance I ended up working for the next 3 years part time
> for a professional photographer. Also by happenstance he used to be an
> instructor at the New England School of Photography and was an excellent
> teacher. What he taught me was that I knew almost nothing about
> photography. :-) He was himself following photography as a passion and
> also doing well financially. Before turning to photography full-time he
> had had a long career working for Digital Equipment as a PhD chemical
> engineer.
>
> So much for that. In 2006 I convinced my wife that she too should
> retire and we should move somewhere other than Boston to save money.
> With no particular place to go we decided to return to her home town in
> upstate New York and where I had first started working for IBM. We did
> save money but 7 years later have learned that you can't really go home
> again after being gone for 35 years. IBM is jokingly referred to as
> "I've Been Moved" and in my case it was true. I had lived in Michigan,
> California, Texas, Germany, Texas, New York, Virginia, New York, Florida
> and Massachusetts. I had no real roots anywhere.
>
> But, since 2009 we have been spending our winters in a 55+ community in
> Florida. What we've learned is that such a place offers opportunities
> for far more activities and friendships than we find at home.
> Consequently we're negotiating for a new permanent home in a 55+
> community in South Carolina. If all goes well we should relocate later
> this year. I wish I had known about living in such places 7 years ago.
> You might want to check them out if you don't have deep roots where
> you are.
>
> If all goes well you should expect one day soon to say: "I'm so busy
> being a retiree I don't know how I ever had time to work."
>
> Best of luck,
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 1/1/2014 10:34 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
> > Olympus friends: Today is the first day of the rest of my life. As of
> > today, I have retired from my corporate IT job. I recently hit the sixty
> > year mark, so I'm a bit younger than the traditional American age. But
> > given the many changes that have taken place in the workplace in recent
> > years (he said, politely), it's time. Fortunately, we can do it.
> >
> > I hope to begin a new chapter in my life where I can exercise my true
> > passions more fully, namely music, writing and photography. I'm going to
> > let the balance between them (and just enjoying myself) work itself out
> > over time.
> >
> > Wish me luck! I'd love to hear from anyone (either here or privately)
> > who has been though this transition and has some tips for dealing
> > gracefully with the changes.
> >
> > --Peter
> >
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