vze3xykq wrote:
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> Boxes! After moving back to my mom's for a very little bit, I've moved 5
> times in 10 years. I own a house and still haven't fully unpacked. On the
> last move my friends wife found a garbage bag full of purses and women shoes
> (my mother's, honest), it's still in the basement. I don't think I'm a
> packrat, just very lazy.
I know I'm a packrat. :)
Unpacking has slowed down to a crawl. A number of things are dependent
on other things being done first, and most of them need to wait for the
weekend. I did one thing I *could* do on my own, and discovered
something else that has to be done ASAP (i.e., Saturday).
And then there's the small child. Dan asked when the books would all be
unpacked in the library. I said "10 Sammy-free hours from now." :)
> Good luck on finding Banks books. Excession is in print over here, but most
> of the titles are caught in the US/UK publishing limbo. If you like to
> borrow some, I think I know someone who can hook you up. ;-)
www.crimeandspace.com will probably be able to sell you copies of
whatever Banks you want, if you ask. (Letting them know I recommended
you go to them probably won't hurt either of us, either.)
> Not saying Reggie that your self examination is wrong, but I believe
> happiness comes from within*. I just don't hear many retirees or people
> close to that saying "You know I wish I would have been a welder instead of
> a pipe fitter. They have better coffee." They just want OUT or are glad to
> be out. Yes you have to move ahead somewhat, you don't want the company to
> realize they can replace you with a 22 year old college grad at half you
> salaery.
You're right on the happiness coming from within, but some people really
love their work and can get a decent wage for it. My 70-year-old
father-in-law was just laid off from Motorola the Monday before our
move. I think he qualified for at least partial retirement, and if
that's the case, that'll be the *third* pension he'll be collecting,
because in 1986, he was offered early retirement from Rockwell as the
first part of downsizing (before they started actually laying people
off), took it, went to TI looking for a job, found one, got offered
retirement from that at some point, took it, found a job at a small
company, ended up having a mutual parting of the ways (the employer was
in the habit of burning through engineers, and burned through him, at
least temporarily), started looking for another job, got hired by
Motorola (which paid to move him from Texas to Arizona), and now just
got laid off. He is going to look for another job, because he loves the
work he does, and it requires a lot of extra overhead that he can't
afford himself. (You can't just build chips in your garage....) My
mother-in-law isn't going to let him move this time, unless he managed
to find a job near us, which isn't going to happen (nobody is doing the
sort of design work he does in this part of the state), and I don't
think he's going to find anyone willing to hire him, but he's still
going to give it one more shot. And if he doesn't find a job, hey, he's
got enough saved up to do some travelling, which he enjoys.
Julia
