It's not a done deal yet but we hope to buy a place in Murrells Inlet.
We won't know for sure until some time in February.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/2/2014 5:44 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> My husband was an engineer, building aluminum plants. The first 25 years
> we were married, we moved 36 times, including two years each in Iran and
> Venezuela. When he left the corporate world and started his own consulting
> firm, we could have lived anywhere and chose South Carolina.
>
> Where in South Carolina are you moving?
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> wrote:
>
>> Wonderful! I started doing what you're doing in 2002 at age 59. By
>> that time I had formally retired from 30 years of working at IBM plus
>> another 7 years at two other companies. Unfortunately, I didn't realize
>> for another year (of unsuccessful job hunting) that I had actually
>> retired at 59. :-)
>>
>> By pure happenstance I ended up working for the next 3 years part time
>> for a professional photographer. Also by happenstance he used to be an
>> instructor at the New England School of Photography and was an excellent
>> teacher. What he taught me was that I knew almost nothing about
>> photography. :-) He was himself following photography as a passion and
>> also doing well financially. Before turning to photography full-time he
>> had had a long career working for Digital Equipment as a PhD chemical
>> engineer.
>>
>> So much for that. In 2006 I convinced my wife that she too should
>> retire and we should move somewhere other than Boston to save money.
>> With no particular place to go we decided to return to her home town in
>> upstate New York and where I had first started working for IBM. We did
>> save money but 7 years later have learned that you can't really go home
>> again after being gone for 35 years. IBM is jokingly referred to as
>> "I've Been Moved" and in my case it was true. I had lived in Michigan,
>> California, Texas, Germany, Texas, New York, Virginia, New York, Florida
>> and Massachusetts. I had no real roots anywhere.
>>
>> But, since 2009 we have been spending our winters in a 55+ community in
>> Florida. What we've learned is that such a place offers opportunities
>> for far more activities and friendships than we find at home.
>> Consequently we're negotiating for a new permanent home in a 55+
>> community in South Carolina. If all goes well we should relocate later
>> this year. I wish I had known about living in such places 7 years ago.
>> You might want to check them out if you don't have deep roots where
>> you are.
>>
>> If all goes well you should expect one day soon to say: "I'm so busy
>> being a retiree I don't know how I ever had time to work."
>>
>> Best of luck,
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 1/1/2014 10:34 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>>> Olympus friends: Today is the first day of the rest of my life. As of
>>> today, I have retired from my corporate IT job. I recently hit the sixty
>>> year mark, so I'm a bit younger than the traditional American age. But
>>> given the many changes that have taken place in the workplace in recent
>>> years (he said, politely), it's time. Fortunately, we can do it.
>>>
>>> I hope to begin a new chapter in my life where I can exercise my true
>>> passions more fully, namely music, writing and photography. I'm going to
>>> let the balance between them (and just enjoying myself) work itself out
>>> over time.
>>>
>>> Wish me luck! I'd love to hear from anyone (either here or privately)
>>> who has been though this transition and has some tips for dealing
>>> gracefully with the changes.
>>>
>>> --Peter
>>>
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