Tomorrow I Unretire

[Smokin Gator SASS #29736]

4 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Well, we can squeak by on Social Security, but any unexpected expense puts us on rice, beans, and oatmeal for a while.  The extra will be nice.  

I figure two and a half or three years will give us a little bit of a cushion and increase my SSI noticably.

 

I totally understand. It will be great for you to boost up your finances knowing you'll have that cushion.  I just see so many who are bored a short time after retirement and return to work. However I didn't have a career doing something I loved either.

[punxsutawneypete]

On 7/29/2024 at 7:50 AM, Pat Riot said:

 

 

Awe, who am I kidding. I just don’t want to work for anyone, anytime, anywhere. I’ll eat rice and veggies daily before I would go back to work anywhere. 
 

I don't either.  I live in an adjoining state to you.  We could get together for rice and veggies and compare our non-working days.

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Retired at 69 years of age: I reasoned that average of a caucasian male, this state, this county, is 75, that means

(counts on fingers and toes) I only have about six years left.

Good thing I strive to be above average, my father turns 90 right here directly and I am working hard to emulate his fine example.

I am not, however, a trusting man.

This year I renewed both the wastewater certification, and the nursing license.

Should circumstance dictate a return to the workforce, my certifications will be current and valid!

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Well,  two full weeks, putting in about 7 hours a day.   

 

Taking the drawings, numbering the features to turn them into balloon/bubble drawings, enter that in the proper boxes on the inspection forms,  double check the forms after the QA guy does his inspection. 

 

Interesting thing is I'm catching stuff on the drawings from our customers.   Things like a call out of 8X R.5 MAX. That's the corner radius on tabs projecting from the body of the part.  2 radii per tab. But there are only 3 tabs,  so it should be 6X, not 8X.

 

Another,  tapped threads.  M2X0.4 -2B.  Except it should be 6H.  

 

Some of the parts, the notes don't really make sense,  just boilerplate that goes on every drawing.  "Remove all burrs and break sharp edges .005 to .015."

That on parts made from .005  shim stock.

[Calamity Kris]

Sounds like a perfect fit for you!!!

[Subdeacon Joe]

Just now, Calamity Kris said:

Sounds like a perfect fit for you!!!

 

It's part of what I was doing before.   But now I'm not going out on the shop floor spot checking parts, leaning into machines to check close tolerance critical dimensions,  or contorting into a lathe to 3-wire threads, and a dozen other things. 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Subdeacon Joe]

Well, it's been 4 weeks since I  last worked.   I think the guy running QA made mistakes with the account that was supposed to really have stuff rolling in that we got dropped.   In the short time I was back I saw 3 different things come back for rework,  and a part (a dozen  of the  same  part number) sitting in shipping because the wrong revision got made.  

 

Good while it lasted.  Let us get a few luxuries. 

[bgavin]

I miss the work itself but not the addled management and its endless problems.

[Pat Riot]

I have finally stopped dreaming about my last job. Thank God 

[WOLFY]

I still have that random morning when I look at my phone to see when I’m due next… then I realize I’ve retired.  I miss the fires and the guys and girls I fought with, but I do not miss the politics of working for the city of San Francisco.  

 

If the economy keeps tanking, I might have to pick up a job… we’ll see.

[Rye Miles #13621]

I’m semi retired and self employed, I work when I want to and as long as I can. I work part time only and my own hours. 

[watab kid]

i thought id stopped dreaming about past jobs a while back , then every once in a while - months between - ill get one , not always the same job and sometimes a combination of more than one , generally weird and no longer disconcerting - just weird with recognizable folks - some of them are dead now so im not sure what it all means but i just ignore them , nothing can solve those problems any better than we did back then now , a few of those buildings are gone now , others will stand for years yet , either way the day has passed , those that show up in the dreams are not always as i remembered them either , im sure an analyst could charge me lots to figure it all out but i think i can live out my life without that , 

[Rip Snorter]

Corporate post traumatic stress - once in a while I even have HS or College dreams, and that was a very long time ago!