Congratulations, Alan. Wow, 73! Perhaps you actually followed my career advice to youngsters just entering the work force: "All you have to do is outlast bad management." 😉
Truly loving the technical work on VM, I thought that I'd collapse over my keyboard at age 89+, but our privately held company went public, then it was bought out. At each step, the pressure/stress increased, deadlines tightened, and more of the compensation went to the increasing quantity of senior management while less went to the drones performing actual work. My retirement came at age 66, also working my last employed day, >before< a stress-induced heart attack could do me in. I enjoyed our time together at SHARE, on the SHARE VM Technical Steering Committee, and once again thank you for advising me on way to compress (IIRC, using Base 244 arithmetic) a 21-character Peoplesoft-induced account code into the meager 8 bytes allotted in the VMDBK. Enjoy your retirement, I'm still working at that. But I do enjoy getting up in the morning at "the crack of 8 AM", or even later. Mike Walter -Retired- -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Alan Ackerman Sent: Monday, February 24, 2020 5:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: I've retired I retired from Bank of America on 2/8/2020 (my 73rd birthday). If you want to send me email, please used the address: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> I intend to remain on this LINUX-390 mailing list, if I can figure out how. Alan Ackerman [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.marist.edu%2Fhtbin%2Fwlvindex%3FLINUX-390&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca83a3b9a6beb4d4222b508d7b9841509%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637181849238917145&sdata=JmLHQD74fWIjwWR6DtH8%2Bd0AS%2FUXmiomWFlAAZRFxqA%3D&reserved=0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
