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Old 07-30-2020, 07:49 PM
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Retired 3 years ago at 62.

Played about half that time (on and off since 1975) in various rock/pop/blues cover bands on the side for a quick adrenaline hit (and cover the bar tab). Never nervous. Totally excited, tingling, vividly alive playing strong rock tunes and watching people dance. Presently figuring out solo acoustic takes on some of my favorites from this past half-century, really wishing I could find a decent local singer who can chunk some chords.

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Graduated H.S. and went into family business - 15 years doing concrete curbs (as in streets and parking lots), sidewalks, some large pads, some commercial and residential Belgium block curbs. I was a semi skilled laborer - concrete finisher, back hoe operator. A lot of manual digging and grading. Did I mention a lot of digging?

Saw the light at the end of the tunnel (my father was on his 3rd hernia) so I started going to college at night towards a B.S. in accounting with a concentration in computers. Took 6.5 years, some during the day, but most classes at night part time. Found a job in accounting in late 1988 and I'm still with the same firm 30+ years later.

I'm also the office geeky guy who gets the computers "unfrozen" and printers printing, tax returns e-filed and fun stuff like that....
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College professor. My field is British Lit, particularly the 18th and 19th centuries. But before this job, I had quite a few others. I remember a few years moving office furniture. And a few years as a legal proofreader.
You're really pretty awesome, Jim. You should start a thread about your favorite 18th/19th century British novel. I hope it will be Dickens, because he is great. No joke, I love that stuff.
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Retired from the Navy, retired from DoD, retired from auto racing.

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Old 07-31-2020, 06:24 AM
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You're really pretty awesome, Jim. You should start a thread about your favorite 18th/19th century British novel. I hope it will be Dickens, because he is great. No joke, I love that stuff.
Well, Morgan, Dickens is pretty far up on my list. When I was in undergraduate school, I took a class on the 19th-C novel from a really fine professor who was an enthusiastic Dickens scholar. That enthusiasm rubbed off on me.
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Old 07-31-2020, 08:23 AM
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Embedded C++ software engineer working on cellular repeaters for large venues like stadiums, arenas and large office complexes. Slinging code..
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Programming used to be my hobby. Basic, Quickbasic, Turbo Pascal, very little C and enough assembler to crash my pc all the time, lol. Fun stuff. I miss it. Windows ruined everything, lol.
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What do y'all do!

Edit: omg. I realized most of y'all are probably retired.
Gainfully retired, although due to health more than age. Was librarian and teacher in a jurvenile "prison" (called a training school). Had to retire when my health wouldn't allow me to do the mandatory self defense training.
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Moved onto commercial & residential building, mainly urban & have found my way back to bulk earthworks tied into major energy infrastructure (Snowy Hydro).

Current work is not too intense but long hours, funnelling what I can into my superannuation, looking to retire in next 5-6 years.
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Forest Ranger for ten years, then studied marine biology and did a year working in a virology laboratory and have worked in fisheries research ever since. Did a mid-life PhD on estuarine ecology to keep my chops up. My guitar playing is pretty amateur but it helps to keep me sane.
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