I’ve retired twice. First from the feds and secondly from University of Wisconsin-Madison, which I miss. When people ask me what I do, I tell them “as little as possible.“
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May I ask your name? I graduated from Rutgers-Camden in 1987. Perhaps you were one of my professors.
e-mail me at cno711@yahoo.com. I'd like to preserve my anonymity here.
Because of that time? Ya know, with that guy at the thing?
Enjoy your life to the fullest!I've decided that 33 years -- half my life -- of being a professor is enough, and that this will be my last semester in the classroom. I just want to do other things with my remaining life.
I heard there was baby oil and small mammals involved.
I've decided that 33 years -- half my life -- of being a professor is enough, and that this will be my last semester in the classroom. I just want to do other things with my remaining life.
You do realize that a quick faculty bio search should let us narrow the possibilities quite a bit. Or we can just wait for the retirement announcement and new emeritus status headed your way. besides.. rurahrah (was him, I hope, with teh street names, etc posts) already has a full chart on you for his retirement plan.. identity theft of everyone on Scarlet Nation.e-mail me at cno711@yahoo.com. I'd like to preserve my anonymity here.
Very good program. All NJ state employees - local, county, schools, and RU - should be moved to the ABP.No, I am not in the pension system. Professors are instead in the Alternate Benefit Program, established in about 1959 Both the University and I contribute to TIAA-CREF, and I have over the years contributed extra money.
Very good program. All NJ state employees - local, county, schools, and RU - should be moved to the ABP.
Camden, the best to you. Are you planning on staying on the east cost or coming back to California?
I've always enjoyed our correspondences here on the ACADEMIC board, and I hope you continue to do so. I've always admired your points of view. Anyway, best of luck to you.
I understand. I can't argue with you regarding to what's going on in California. I keep finding myself crossing off places in California I want to live based on some of the natural disasters that are becoming more omnipresent as each year passes.Thanks! For the time being, we'll stay in the East, but we might seek someplace else for the winter. My impression is that California is hugely expensive and Mother Nature seems to be destroying the place. So I don't think our summer place will be in California. It's a shame; I enjoyed my time there.
Congrats and best wishes! I would suggest Miami or Floridas West Coast as a great place to spend the winter.
My parents own in Naples.My wife is familiar with the Gulf Coast -- her parents used to go down there each winter -- and so we will try that first, I think. Thanks for the suggestions!
Congrats!! You'll have to tell us how you like it. I'm about 75% sure I'm going to take a package this year and retire, also, after 30 years. I still like my job and my boss, but I've been thinking that I want to enjoy some years where I'm (hopefully) still fairly healthy - especially having had a few close friends die in the past year or two at my age or younger. The old saying probably applies: nobody ever was on their death bed wishing they had worked more.
FWIW....I recently turned 59 and after 35 years in CPG took a package this past August. Wife still working in school system so we'll have summers together. Still trying to figure it out. Weird some days...but amazing feeling on Sunday nights and post holidays! I could have been in the game for years to come and I miss that but...why if you don't have to, right? funny as right now I am also getting employment "dings" left and right...
Finally started golfing each week and recently signed up to sub in a senior bowling league. So the new activity level is cool. Very few days so far just sitting around as there is all kinds of stuff to do here and there. Doing the shopping in the afternoon and prepping dinner for when wife gets home....and even doing the laundry now and again lol. Looking forward to catching some of the RU spring sports in afternoon games...and just got called for 16 weeks of Grand Jury....which should be real interesting...
to Camden Law..congrats and enjoy!
Thanks! For the time being, we'll stay in the East, but we might seek someplace else for the winter. My impression is that California is hugely expensive and Mother Nature seems to be destroying the place. So I don't think our summer place will be in California. It's a shame; I enjoyed my time there.
yup....started working for Middlesex County Court House when I was 14! (summers)...and 2 jobs when I was young. I think there are a ton of us knowing that 60+ work week....the deceleration is a factor. I actually going to start a part-time (paid) project for 16 weeks in addition to the jury duty. But you know what...after 4 months now I am not as excited about it. (kinda what other folks said would happen).Yeah, been wondering if it would feel weird having so much free time after working my ass off for 30 years (can't recall working less than 50 hours a week ever and my "standard" week has probably been 65 hours/week for a long time). And I hear about people missing the camaraderie and working together on a team to solve problems - I did always want to try something else in the work world, like maybe a small start-up.
But, I have a lot of hobbies. I would certainly want to go back to playing more golf (used to play 2-3 times a week back in the day), would want to at least spend one day a week at the casino playing poker, and I would certainly want to spend a bit more time on weather and music, plus my wife and I would definitely want to travel more than we have. Could also imagine wanting to play soccer a 2nd day of the week or maybe basketball or street hockey. And yeah, I could see going to more Rutgers sports, too. Or I could try to catch up to bac in posts on this board, lol.
By the way, which CPG? I'm guessing the Hungarian punk band, lol...
CPG may stand for:
Science[edit]
Business[edit]
- Caffeoyl phenylethanoid glycoside, a type of phenolic compound (see for instance Verbascoside)
- Calorically perfect gas
- CpG ODN, a synthetic TLR9 agonist
- CpG site, a site in DNA
- CpG island, a specialized region of DNA
- Central pattern generator, a neural oscillator, for example generating the respiratory cycle
- the abbreviation for Calopogon, an orchid genus containing the "grass pinks"
- Catalog of Principal Galaxies, see Principal Galaxies Catalogue
- Controlled Porosity Glass or Controlled Pore Glass, synonyms for porous glass
- Clavis Patrum Graecorum, a series of volumes published by Brepols of Turnhout in Belgium
Telecommunications[edit]
- Compagnie des phosphates de Gafsa, a Tunisian mining company
- Consumer packaged goods, another name for fast-moving consumer goods
- the ICAO airline designator for Corporacion Aeroangeles, Mexico
Other[edit]
- Converged Packet Gateway, mobile network node
- Clinical practice guideline
- CPg, a Hungarian punk rock band
- Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memory Museum
- Central People's Government, the term used to define the government of the People's Republic of China
- Codices Palatini germanici, the collection of German-language manuscripts in the Palatine library in Heidelberg
- CPG 359, the Cod. Pal. germ. 359 illustrated manuscript
- Catholic Police Guild
- Communist Party of Greece
- In Fallout 4, CPG stands for the Commonwealth Provisional Government
I've decided that 33 years -- half my life -- of being a professor is enough, and that this will be my last semester in the classroom. I just want to do other things with my remaining life.
Thanks! For the time being, we'll stay in the East, but we might seek someplace else for the winter. My impression is that California is hugely expensive and Mother Nature seems to be destroying the place. So I don't think our summer place will be in California. It's a shame; I enjoyed my time there.
camdenlawprof,
Congratulations and best of everything to you in retirement. I have always enjoyed your posts and I hope "retirement" doesn't apply to posting on this board in the future.
You may not want to be in California, but several folks I know are in Arizona and like it too. But it all comes down to what weather, past-times, etc. you and your spouse enjoy. Best to you on those choices.
My wife's brother is in Arizona, and my wife has lived there. So that is also a possibility for the winter. The only problem: no easy access to the ocean.
They already did - it's called California, lol...I hear ya. They don't care about that out there. But I care about that back here. If you could move the Pacific Ocean next to Phoenix, I'd live there.
They already did - it's called California, lol...
It's a conglomerate of refuse and detritus with no real structural stability.
Specifically, Phoenix did used to be next to the Pacific Ocean. California came along more recently, a collection of island arcs being pushed ahead of a moving plate like so much dirty snow on the blade of a plow. It's one of the reasons that California is so geologically unstable. It's a conglomerate of refuse and detritus with no real structural stability.
Just wanna kick myself... knew I should have bought real estate there during the proterozoic era.