Re: The One Percent Pt. 2
Posted: Thu 22 Jun 2017, 13:37:46
Well, allow me to point out that although I don't have a real good grasp of your personal situation, I gather that your lifestyle is changing as you position yourself for retirement.
Once upon a time, I was a corporate digital design engineer, who moved from project to project based on pure performance and the impressive sales of my product designs. Then I became an engineering manager, who still worked on design projects, but also worked with a project management specialist who stroked the schedule and also had to hire/fire/manage a group of younger engineers, as my design skills were no longer current. Then the last 10 years of my 34-year career, I was a sustaining engineer, keeping the maintenance contract revenues flowing from both mine and other engineers' products in the installed base.
That last phase was interesting enough, but as the installed base of Tandem Computers products dwindled and was replaced by first Compaq logo'd products and then HP NonStop products, my group shrank from 19 people to just me. Then when offerred early retirement, I jumped at the chance, and the 80 grand salary bonus and two years of medical/dental/vision benefits was gravy.
As the Gratefull Dead sang, it has been a long, strange trip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJhIG8wc3Ok
Once upon a time, I was a corporate digital design engineer, who moved from project to project based on pure performance and the impressive sales of my product designs. Then I became an engineering manager, who still worked on design projects, but also worked with a project management specialist who stroked the schedule and also had to hire/fire/manage a group of younger engineers, as my design skills were no longer current. Then the last 10 years of my 34-year career, I was a sustaining engineer, keeping the maintenance contract revenues flowing from both mine and other engineers' products in the installed base.
That last phase was interesting enough, but as the installed base of Tandem Computers products dwindled and was replaced by first Compaq logo'd products and then HP NonStop products, my group shrank from 19 people to just me. Then when offerred early retirement, I jumped at the chance, and the 80 grand salary bonus and two years of medical/dental/vision benefits was gravy.
As the Gratefull Dead sang, it has been a long, strange trip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJhIG8wc3Ok