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Subject: [OM] [Leica] OT: I've retired
From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 20:15:55 -0500
Gorgeous area with wonderful seafood. Hope you find what you are looking
for! Weather couldn't be better.

Tina

On Thursday, January 2, 2014, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> It's not a done deal yet but we hope to buy a place in Murrells Inlet.
> We won't know for sure until some time in February.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 1/2/2014 5:44 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>> 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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