I get disappointed a lot...

[Mopar Miki]

This is best thread ever, thank you all for sharing

 

[moparedtn]

This is best thread ever, thank you all for sharing

Appreciate it, thanks!
Let's go to a car show today - this one is a personal favorite (obvious reasons):

Fred and I need to get out and about. It's been a long summer....

 

[Charles Cook]

Appreciate it, thanks!
Let's go to a car show today - this one is a personal favorite (obvious reasons):
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Fred and I need to get out and about. It's been a long summer....

I say go for it Ed. Enjoy your day.

 

[OMTWF-72SE]

Ed, I think you've been more blessed in your career of choice than most people I know. Especially if you are at retirement age and only your last employer was ****. I suspect that this is because of the size of the companies you've worked for or with, but that's an assumption and we know what those do.

I've never worked for a company that wasn't in the fortune 1000. I've been working around computers as a coder for 33 years after 8 years in the Navy. After all this time in corporate America I still lament what the shipboard structure and chain of command provided. But I've had to interview for a job I already had in a merger, watched the ebb and flow of internal employees versus consultants/managed services. See normal individual contributors turn into napoleon when advanced to managers. Watched ageism disguised as skill progression. And come to this conclusion. Pragmatist, pessimist or optimist they're all situational and on the same scale.

My parting statement from someone who's summer vacations in the late 7os included a dirt floor summer kitchen, a dog trot house with newspaper in the walls(with the mice) and a snuff using granny that lived to 102.

It isn't happy people that are thankful, it's thankful people that are happy.

the best definition of success is contentedness, not comparison.

 

[68BabyBlue]

At this point in my life, I can now look back at all that and acknowledge it for what it is -
it no longer has any bearing in my life and I've let it go - stopped trying to "fix" it.
How incredibly freeing that is! 20 pounds, right off my stooped shoulders...

I know how the world worked for me - how despite all the dishonesty and such, I managed to provide for
a family, build my homestead on the ridge, have a wonderful wife who can both support and critique as
needed - and of course, pour my soul into Fred the GTX!

Despite all the trevails, I stand today a blessed man and I damn well know it.

Excellent summation, Ed, to both your career, and this thread. I've always been curious to see how your posts would take form, much like probing the histories of my cars. I don't pretend to have traveled the same health road, having gotten away pretty much unscathed until recent nuisance issues, but I also got a boost on my numbers when I called it quits. Serenity may well provide a boost that is more than the bloom before the curtain comes down. Hope that's the case for you.

Going out on your terms, for the right reasons, is a serious accomplishment. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Davefinan]

I’m disappointed in you …….LOL

In closing , let’s go back and look at my actual post that started your being upset .
In a reaction ( not a snipe ) I sent this above as a way of possibly lightening up the mood ,hell , there is even LOL after it to make sure everyone knew it was in jest. You did not. Possibly because you take your “writings “ very seriously.
Now let’s look at your reaction to what I said below.

I didn't ask for any examples, but thanks for the "participation" anyways...
(You might want to actually read #4, by the way - I beat you to it).

Laced with lightly veiled snide remarks. And for what? Because I tried to lighten up the grim sounding ( whatever that was).
When you post ANYTHING here , anyone can respond , react , joke , snipe , disagree, pick your post apart, anything they feel( within the guidelines of the forum of course).
So please , try to lighten up and stop trying to make it sound to us that you are going die any minute. And then turn around and talk about how you feel better than you have in fifteen years. It’s tiring.