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Subject: [Leica] OT: I've retired
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:48:17 -0800
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On Jan 2, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote:

> 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. 



wonderful Peter, congratulations.....


give me a call sometime,


Steve


> 
>> --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/
> 
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> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
> 
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