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OT -- am retiring from Rutgers

Been retired for almost a year. Since I've had 2 unsolicited part time job offers but turned them down. To be honest I don't know how smart that was but just don't want to have to break a new boss in lol.
 
First, congrats on something well earned.

Second, when drawing up a seating chart of posters on here I would like to have dinner with, @camdenlawprof is on the medal stand.

Take care of your bride and don’t be a stranger.
 
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Congrats!

I hope you will keep contacts at the law school and continue to advise of progress on the Academic board.
 
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.

Congrats and best wishes on your new endeavors! I thought you were going to state you are retiring from being a Rutgers fan and was already conjuring up my response as I clicked on your post.
 
e-mail me at cno711@yahoo.com. I'd like to preserve my anonymity here.
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.

Enjoy your retirement if not your anonymity.
 
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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.
 
Great decision ! Now that part 1 is winding down, part 2 will be better, just wait. I've been watching RU for 66 years and worked for 40+. Probably better in that order than the other way around. Either way, the memories remain.
Enjoy your new life !
 
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.

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.
 
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.
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.
 
Congrats and best wishes! I would suggest Miami or Floridas West Coast as a great place to spend the winter.
 
Congrats and best wishes! I would suggest Miami or Floridas West Coast as a great place to spend the winter.

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!
 
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!
My parents own in Naples.

Give it a look. I think you will like it a lot.
 
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!
 
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!

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]
Telecommunications[edit]
  • Converged Packet Gateway, mobile network node
Other[edit]
 
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.

Have you considered the Tug Hill Plateau or maybe Buffalo? Awesome lake effect snowstorms in the winter, lol. But if you're thinking warmer, my father retired to Vero Beach ~20 years ago and loves it. It's pretty quiet, but there is a bit of culture, some nice restaurants, an eclectic (for FL) downtown and great beaches of course. Pretty sure I'll die in Jersey - love it here and can't imagine being so far away I couldn't attend RU sporting events.
 
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]
Telecommunications[edit]
  • Converged Packet Gateway, mobile network node
Other[edit]
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).

CPG....my wife would say you could stop at #2 and gas...excluding the perfect part lol.

Consumer Products Group....Pepsico, Kraft, and Mondelez International (Confections Division)

...oh, and re-join a band (drums)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.

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...

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.
 
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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.
 
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Just wanna kick myself... knew I should have bought real estate there during the proterozoic era.

There's still time!

In just a few million years, this lovely piece of real estate, right here, will be the northern Sea of Cortez, with stunning beachfront property on either side.

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Meh, if I have to wait that long, I'll just get in on the ground floor of Loihi Seamount.
 
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