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I am "retired." I didn't want to be, but no one in tech wants to work with oldsters, so I had to take my butthurt, and admit that I'm not going to be working for anyone, ever again. Best damn thing that ever happened to me. I had enough to retire, when I did, but had no intention of doing so, for another ten years. That was a bit over six years ago, and I am wondering what all the fuss was about. The "retired" was in quotes, because I never stopped working. I just stopped writing code on someone else's orders, and started writing the code that I always wanted to write. It's a lot more professional, high-Quality, documented, and bug-free, than anything I ever did, when I was being paid to do it. And I really enjoy it. I have no intention of ever stopping. The coroner is gonna have to rub "YTЯƎWϘ" off my cheek. I know three chaps that retired from my old company. They had worked there for 30+ years, and moved out of state, to relax. They were all in their sixties. They are all dead, and achieved this transcendental state, before they reached 70. |
I think that's the point. Actually retiring as in not doing any work is statistically speaking a steep slippery slope to death.