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Topic: Retirement / What am I working for?

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847badgerfan

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Re: Retirement / What am I working for?
« Reply #154 on: May 08, 2024, 08:13:30 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on May 08, 2024, 07:29:25 AM
If you can derive some sense of accomplishment in your work, that is fantastic.
The thing I feel best about as I get into my waning years is that I've provided a good job and good living for a lot of people, for a long time.

The next best thing is that my company is actually worth something and it is paying me to go away.
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Re: Retirement / What am I working for?
« Reply #155 on: May 08, 2024, 08:16:40 AM »
I have some fleeting notions of having done something useful in my time, but oddly enough, much of my best work, IMHO, was either unrecognized or dismissed by the higher ups, while I got credit for some things I viewed as trivial and trite and not very original.

Life often was upside down.  

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« Reply #156 on: May 08, 2024, 08:43:04 AM »
some accomplishments over 25 years ago killing hogs and other meat packing projects

Some accomplishments building networks to serve cooperative small town customers with internet service

and the past 2 1/2 years accomplished building a solid client base in Iowa and Nebraska from scratch

nothing earth shattering, but a good sense about being productive

my only failure was my college career (dropped out)
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Re: Retirement / What am I working for?
« Reply #157 on: May 08, 2024, 08:45:53 AM »
The good news is "we" get to decide what was useful and rewarding, not someone else.

We largely don't get to decide which gets rewarded by the bosses.
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« Reply #158 on: May 08, 2024, 08:47:54 AM »
a good boss makes all the difference

regardless of the rewards
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« Reply #159 on: May 08, 2024, 08:50:54 AM »
I had two bosses I'd consider good out of about 30.  Another 15 or so were neutral, useless, pointless, lazy, but not negative, and the rest were frankly damaging to any prospects.

I had one bosses boss who liked me and was good, another one liked me but was horrible otherwise.
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« Reply #160 on: May 08, 2024, 08:53:55 AM »
Quote from: Riffraft on May 08, 2024, 06:51:56 AM
Phoenix much better no humidity  and year around holf
Wha!!!Friends moved there 2 yrs ago to be closer to family.But he comes back and stays in N.Ohio for much of the summer/fall.His adult daughters stay with mom one is finishing her 2nd yr at ASU. He hates the heat he'd email us how many days in a row were over 110°. He's a holf whore to and likes the greens and greenery up here
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« Reply #161 on: May 08, 2024, 08:54:39 AM »
yup, my boss before the current one caused me to plan to retire early at 59 1/2
miserable
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« Reply #162 on: May 08, 2024, 09:00:04 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on May 08, 2024, 08:53:55 AM
Wha!!!Friends moved there 2 yrs ago to be closer to family.But he comes back and stays in N.Ohio for much of the summer/fall.His adult daughters stay with mom one is finishing her 2nd yr at ASU. He hates the heat he'd email us how many days in a row were over 110°. He's a holf whore to and likes the greens and greenery up here
They will run out of water eventually.
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« Reply #163 on: May 08, 2024, 09:39:06 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on May 08, 2024, 08:54:39 AM
yup, my boss before the current one caused me to plan to retire early at 59 1/2
miserable
HA! not all violence amongst employees is the work of a mad man.Some problematic piss ants with position kept pushing the wrong buttons
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Re: Retirement / What am I working for?
« Reply #164 on: May 08, 2024, 09:39:59 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on May 08, 2024, 09:00:04 AM
They will run out of water eventually.
Not if - when
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Re: Retirement / What am I working for?
« Reply #165 on: May 08, 2024, 09:41:28 AM »
I would just reprocess waste water, maybe they do it.  A waste treatment plant can produce potable water at some additional expense (tertiary).

I know they lose a lot to evaporation and leakage.
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« Reply #166 on: May 08, 2024, 09:41:54 AM »
yup, I'm happy to have left before I acted in a way towards him that I'd regret

no sense tainting a 23 1/2 year career at a place in my home town
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« Reply #167 on: May 08, 2024, 09:50:18 AM »
It was more than probable myself and others were going to whip a boss like a rented mule.I'm getting to old for that shit but the thought of busting a burning slug into his ass brought a smile to my face. But then he looks like a victim
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