[Stu from NYC]

Took over for Art Carney

[kkingston57]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

I like that most people you meet here in The Villages seldom talk about their retired profession, unless you ask them. Many of my new friends since moving here, I still don’t know what they did prior to retirement.

But since the question was asked here - I was an auto insurance claims manager - was hired as a claims adjuster right out of college. Fortunate to have had only one employer my entire adult working career.

Had same job but mostly worked as an independent. Florida was and still is a gold mine for this business as an independent. A lot of bad storms and a lot of unscrupulous public adjusters, attorneys and contractors. In fact Irma delayed my retirement by one year.

[Ecuadog]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Took over for Art Carney

Engineer in subterranean sanitation?

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

Me too, for 6 years.

I had a Federal Government job for 35 years. Every time I looked for another job, I would have needed to take a huge pay cut, have less job security, work longer hours, and get fewer benefits. Plus, I would have had to actually work for a living.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Ecuadog

Engineer in subterranean sanitation?

Sanitation Engineer

[New Englander]

I was a taste tester for Jack Daniels.

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by New Englander

I was a taste tester for Jack Daniels.

At retirement...............anything change???

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I had a Federal Government job for 35 years. Every time I looked for another job, I would have needed to take a huge pay cut, have less job security, work longer hours, and get fewer benefits. Plus, I would have had to actually work for a living.

My Hero!

[New Englander]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

At retirement...............anything change???

Never change something that always worked.

[Ecuadog]

At one time, I worked as a Crowd Control Engineer.

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I had a Federal Government job for 35 years. Every time I looked for another job, I would have needed to take a huge pay cut, have less job security, work longer hours, and get fewer benefits. Plus, I would have had to actually work for a living.

After graduating college and active duty military service I got a job as a patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office and attended law school in the evenings and Saturday mornings. My first SPE (Supervisory Primary Examiner = boss) soon told me to slow down and not work so hard. His reasoning was in order to continue to get promoted I needed to gradually increase my workload so I needed to start slow and easy. After three and a half rather boring years I realized I did not want to lead my whole adult life as a pachyderm in a tedious job which I thought to be a depressing future. I graduated law school and moved on to a fairly adventuresome professional life as an IP attorney and real estate investor-developer.

[LeRoySmith]

I built and operated data centers for an insurance company. What a gig.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Few posters talk about their career...........the cool thing about retirement, it doesn't matter now.

BUT, I will watch the thread to see their history.

Over the 10 years, some posters "live in the past" and try to brag about their past.
(a/k/a: Hey look at me)

guilty, though its still relative recent, less than a year, so I am hoping to break the habit by next summer.

personal chauffeur for CoachK . .

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

After graduating college and active duty military service I got a job as a patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office and attended law school in the evenings and Saturday mornings. My first SPE (Supervisory Patent Examiner = boss) soon told me to slow down and not work so hard. His reasoning was in order to continue to get promoted I need to gradually increase my workload so I needed to start slow and easy. After three and a half rather boring years I realized I did not want to lead my whole adult life as a pachyderm in a tedious job which I thought to be a depressing future. I graduated law school and moved on to a fairly adventuresome professional life as an IP attorney and real estate investor-developer.

They also told me to slow down. But, their reason was that I was making other employees look bad.

[Two Bills]

Waste, recycling and environmental mobile operative.