Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: Subject: [Leica] OT: I've retired >LUG friends: Today is the first day of the rest of my life. As of >today, I have retired from my corporate IT job. >... >... >Wish me luck! I'd love to hear from anyone (either here or privately) >who has been though this transition and has some tips for dealing >gracefully with the changes. >--Peter ====================================================================================================================================================== Welcome to retirement and good luck to you. I retired last May after 40 years at Photographic Services, thankfully just in time to deal with some family medical emergencies, and I don't know how I could have coped while still working full time. Things have stabilized and I think I can start to enjoy my new status. I have time to organize my personal photo collection for posterity and it is fun to find images that I never printed or forgot about. This also dovetails with a UWM History Department project called the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee that I'm involved in. A graduate student and I meet every few weeks to go through my slides and contact sheets to pick pictures that can be scanned for this initiative. Since May I've had numerous dreams in which I'm on assignment, having trouble with light stands falling over, or flash slaves not working, etc. and then realizing - Hey, I don't have to do this anymore! I can just take pictures for me. What a relief. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA POY 1978 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt