Do you enjoy your job?

[DaveNJ]

Good thread. I've enjoyed most of the jobs I had but not as much as retirement. I worked my way through college doing construction and driving a tank truck for the family business. After college I traveled around the country a bit doing various construction jobs, including a stint on oil rigs in the Gulf. Back home after a year and a half or so I again worked the family business for a year then enrolled in law school. After admission to the bar I worked in private practice and some government agencies. Ultimately I ended up as a Deputy Attorney General and then An Assistant Attorney General. It stopped being fun as I got higher in management (imagine having dozens of disgruntled attorneys as employees). I was able to retire at 59 partially due to vested state pension and medical benefits but primarily because the ex and I bought, rehabbed and rented at least one distressed two family home a year for several years. We would use the equity we built in one to buy another. For years while working a regular job I was able to pursue my real passion for building and rehab at night and weekends. We sold all the houses and did well.
In retirement I sometimes rehab a house (with no employees of course). Kind of a trend here on this thread, that moving into management takes the fun out of things.

 

[Molalla1]

It has been said that Amateur radio is the king of hobbies, and the hobby of kings. Probably from the fair number of "royals" that have been Amateurs. Mostly in the middle east and Asia.

Amateur radio has many facets, and people pursue it for many different reasons and pursue sometimes only one or two of those aspects of Amateur Radio that interest's them. The hobby aspect of the Amateur Radio Service is only a part of it. Emergency communications, Public service, etc are all a part of it, but mainly for me it is the continuous search and gaining of knowledge. Take just the "simple" subject of understanding antenna's and transmission lines. That small subset can literally take a lifetime of study and experimentation to become even I believe hiscompetent in their understanding. We are still finding new concepts and ideas on this front. Of course the paradigm shift from hardware based radio systems to the new SDR (Software Defined Radio) is complicated and evolving rapidly. Things are being done with DSP (Digital Signal Processing) that would have been terribly expensive ore even impossible to duplicate in hardware just a few years ago.

My dad was a "ham" many years ago "may he RIP", I believe his numbers were W7VGI . . . he called the last, after the W7 . . . Vodka, Gin and Ice. :laughing:

 

[Molalla1]

Yes.....if a cockpit with conventional yoke controls.
Not so sure....if a sidestick controller type, such as the aircraft built by AirBus.

:thumbsup: . . . I do not think I would have a problem either.

 

[4570Man]

Good thread. I've enjoyed most of the jobs I had but not as much as retirement. I worked my way through college doing construction and driving a tank truck for the family business. After college I traveled around the country a bit doing various construction jobs, including a stint on oil rigs in the Gulf. Back home after a year and a half or so I again worked the family business for a year then enrolled in law school. After admission to the bar I worked in private practice and some government agencies. Ultimately I ended up as a Deputy Attorney General and then An Assistant Attorney General. It stopped being fun as I got higher in management (imagine having dozens of disgruntled attorneys as employees). I was able to retire at 59 partially due to vested state pension and medical benefits but primarily because the ex and I bought, rehabbed and rented at least one distressed two family home a year for several years. We would use the equity we built in one to buy another. For years while working a regular job I was able to pursue my real passion for building and rehab at night and weekends. We sold all the houses and did well.
In retirement I sometimes rehab a house (with no employees of course). Kind of a trend here on this thread, that moving into management takes the fun out of things.

I’ve rehabbed several but I haven’t found anything to buy in a couple years. Locally the housing market is so strong there’s nothing to buy that can be fixed.

 

[5030]

I sure do. I'm retired and now I farm with no pressure. Get up late (except when harvesting), go to bed early (unless there is something of interest on TV which is rare and do basically what I want to without being indentured to the 'man' anymore.

Almost 8pm here, almost time for bed....

 

[Molalla1]

I sure do. I'm retired and now I farm with no pressure. Get up late (except when harvesting), go to bed early (unless there is something of interest on TV which is rare and do basically what I want to without being indentured to the 'man' anymore.

Almost 8pm here, almost time for bed....

:thumbsup: . . . me too.

 

[Rock Crawler]

Start this over as a new thread and ask... Do you like your marriage.... Or do you pray that the Lord calls you home as quick as possible to get you out of this...?

 

[MossRoad]

Start this over as a new thread and ask... Do you like your marriage.... Or do you pray that the Lord calls you home as quick as possible to get you out of this...?

Holy crap! Please don't. :laughing:

 

[k0ua]

My dad was a "ham" many years ago "may he RIP", I believe his numbers were W7VGI . . . he called the last, after the W7 . . . Vodka, Gin and Ice. :laughing:

Been re-assigned to a "close relative".

ULS License - Vanity License - W7VGI - Baker, Paul J

 

[Ken45101]

I had a mostly enjoyable career at a major company. I started out as a draftsman trainee and one of my early managers said "there is a computer terminal down the hall that we aren't using, why don't you see if we can use it?" This was 1967 when the engineers still used slide rules and log tables. Well that got me started with computers. Became an "expert" and did programming and support desk work until PC's arrived in the early 80's. Ultimately I did PC support and evaluated new hardware and software for global corporate approval. I got paid to "play" with the newest toys. I've been retired since 2001.

But my most rewarding "work" was 14 years as a volunteer firefighter/emt on a busy suburban department. I had to quit that when the heavy lifting (EMT) was too much for my back after a couple of surgeries.

Ken