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#258
As you all know I am going to retire (if they let me), now in April. I am a very private person... but I have been through soooo much in my life that I almost feel compelled to share ( boggles my mind as I look back). But the other side of me says fawk it... and just go to the next chapter. But I lean to sharing the shiet I have gone through, thinking it might make a difference to someone listening. Usually these things come up at a retirement, as they give you a time to speak, and if they offer this up, I likely would blow their doors off... and I know know I would break down as well (Viet Nam stuff, where I almost died, without the time to grow up yet as a man). It's easier for me to just to move on.

I lost my wife a year and a half ago... and that has messed me up big time... but I keep pushing forward and try to be the strong father, that my 2 daughters still rely on... I am doing that well!

But... I am known world wide for my accomplishments in the semiconductor industry and do not not want to exit on down side. I know from my posts here I am in the top 10 of idiot posts, behind a few expert posters, but we all have a story that is important personally, and maybe my story has the chance to touch someone.

Finally...I think my life can be summed up simply as the impact of a 1 year tour in Viet Nam = 42 years in the high tech industry. What a shame. Not one day passes without a memory of that tour entering my mind... powerful sheit.

Thoughts? Tuck it in as I have been doing... or let it out?

Sorry.... wine and music from the 70s gets to me, and brings this stuff up... you will be there someday!
 
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NEVolFan said:
As you all know I am going to retire (if they let me), now in April. I am a very private person... but I have been through soooo much in my life that I almost feel compelled to share ( boggles my mind as I look back). But the other side of me says fawk it... and just go to the next chapter. But I lean to sharing the shiet I have gone through, thinking it might make a difference to someone listening. Usually these things come up at a retirement, as they give you a time to speak, and if they offer this up, I likely would blow their doors off... and I know know I would break down as well (Viet Nam stuff, where I almost died, without the time to grow up yet as a man). It's easier for me to just to move on.

I lost my wife a year and a half ago... and that has messed me up big time... but I keep pushing forward and try to be the strong father, that my 2 daughters still rely on... I am doing that well!

But... I am known world wide for my accomplishments in the semiconductor industry and do not not want to exit on down side. I know from my posts here I am in the top 10 of idiot posts, behind a few expert posters, but we all have a story that is important personally, and maybe my story has the chance to touch someone.

Finally...I think my life can be summed up simply as the impact of a 1 year tour in Viet Nam = 42 years in the high tech industry. What a shame. Not one day passes without a memory of that tour entering my mind... powerful sheit.

Thoughts? Tuck it in as I have been doing... or let it out?

Sorry.... wine and music from the 70s gets to me, and brings this stuff up... you will be there someday!
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I don’t know. Seems like a lot of people who retire wind up circling around as a consultant or some such these days. You might scare some people with those stories if they don’t already know those things about you. OTOH, if you know you’re done for good and don’t care whether it freaks anyone else out, it’s your moment and you can do what you like until they take the mic out of your hand. FWIW, the retirement events I’ve attended people usually keep it to work-related war stories and what they plan to do next (golf, grandparent, etc.) I’ve been to a few for female colleagues that turned into bitch sessions about how crappy it was for them to be an unappreciated female in a male dominated profession back in the 70s, and it definitely changed my perspective on those ladies.
 
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