My work is awesome!

 

I'm working 10 hours right now =(

 

Right. That's why you've been talking about retirement planning for..... let's see.....how many years has been Bill?

 

Hell, I was talking about retirement planning in 1986, the year I started here.

 

No I think it's safe for both Doug and I to say Never when it comes to kids! Note the Capital "N"

Lainey, glad to hear Rick has more time to spend with you and sorry to see your "arm in sling" avatar again - I hope you feel better soon! I was wondering why you had not posted in Upstate for awhile.

 

Good golly Dave that would be my response as well. I worked and was successful, but I was never what I did. When someone would ask what I did, I would say, I was a guy who traveled, dove, hiked and liked cars....oh, and yes, I also worked as a salesguy.

 

I've lurked and posted a bit here and there in NY.

Ellen, I'm doing OK. Arm goes into sling on Monday after surgery, and this side has not been as uncomfortable as the last.

As far as changing my avatar I guess I have premature avatar disease.

 

[QUOTE=Zippy,May 13 2010, 06:59 PM] Good golly Dave that would be my response as well.

 

I have to carry an "on call" cell phone from work. Fortunately, it only rings a couple of times a year, outside of planned outages. I want to be important enough that I don't need a cell phone.

Don't get me wrong: the people I work with are nice, management treats us pretty well, the work is sometimes quite interesting (PeopleSoft Cobol did some amazing things), I've worked much more than 40 hours many weeks, but if I didn't need the money I'd be gone in a heartbeat.

The petty politics, bureaucracy, and red tape of corporate America could suck all the joy out of eating pie for a living.

 

I think I'm safe.

I love my job and I'm proud of how good I am at it. But I am not my job. My job is something I do. Ninety-nine percent of the time my job doesn't feel like a job. It's all the meetings and the paperwork which serves no function other than satisfy the whims of a group of bureaucrats. Luckily for me and all other parties concerned, my reputation for having zero patience for mindless bureaucracy has become well known and I'm rarely asked to participate in such things any more.

Then there is the contract I had to sign as a condition of my employment that I will not plot or attempt to overthrow the Constitutionally established Government of the United States. WTH am I supposed to do now in my spare time, take up knitting?