Celebrating Retirement: The grand theme of retirement is time, and it seems to evoke two distinct responses: An empty glass with too many hours, days, weeks, months, and years to fill; or, a full glass from which to savor the many things that one had to put aside before. A five-month trial run of retirement after one of those high-tech company downsizings confirmed my expectation that it would hold no terrors for me. Then, after a final twenty-month swan-song as machine vision engineer, I retired in October 2000, making, as I had always wanted to do, my own decision to leave.
June 2011: Now, after almost ten years of retirement, with still with too few hours in the day and too many interesting things to do, that was certainly the right call then and, with the present economy, the right call now.
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Some of the activities that I am enjoying at present:
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Participating in BOLLI (Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute), both giving and taking courses -
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Keeping up my distance running, -
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Enjoying my interest in fine wines.
As a bumpersticker said: "Life is too short to drink bad wine".
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Volunteer tutoring in high school math and occasionally physics.
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Continuing to learn piano, and playing some real music -
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Listening to classical music, with strong emphasis on the 20th century; -
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Reading German literature -
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And that's without counting a few more interests that compete for all the time that retirees are said to have (24 hours is still too short for my day):
Expanding my cooking and baking repertoire
(See Favorite Recipes)
Getting back into nature photography;
Doing NYTimes crosswords and Sudoku number puzzles;
Writing personal Reminiscences, Writings, Observations;
Updating and maintaining this site; learning new HTML features;
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Finally, it's been good to live at a more relaxed pace, without the stress of work deadlines and unreasonable demands by management, of downsizing, product cancellations and facility closings or group mergers. More at A High-Tech Career.
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Contact Information: I have no further need of business cards in retirement, so here instead is an image of my personally designed Calling Card
Questions? Comments? Please use the Email address on the Calling Card to drop me a line or three.
