A Message from the Heavens
I have been an active person my entire life. Retirement, equated to sitting around, was never in the picture, but after 20+ years with the same employer I seemed to be settling in for the long term. Then something happened to open my eyes. I received an email with the subject set to the title of a paper I presented at the 1974 Winter Simulation Conference. The long and the short of it was that a former consulting client was still using a forecasting methodology I had installed for them many years before. A short conversation later and they indicated that they would retain my services at a good rate. I felt a bit stagnant at my long-term employer, and was loyal (but sometimes irreverant). It appeared that I still had a number of functioning brain cells after all. Discussions with my wife indicated that I could also consult and do business development in the Executive Search field.
Should I make the change or not? That was fairly easy "Yes." What would I tell my employer of so many years?
I looked to the heavens and was given the answer.
I was born in 1940, which puts me a bit ahead of the baby boomer generation and came of age in the 50's. I went to all the good schools, got good grades, married, had two kids, and a long enjoyable career as a business economist. I'm still working, though not at my normal pace. Over the years I have enjoyed the exercise of riding a bicycle, but now that the legs are wearing a bit thin, I've picked up a motorcycle to satisfy my wanderlust.