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malada ([personal profile] malada) wrote2025-10-23 07:35 am

Finally, retirement

This will be my last day at work. I've been at the television station since 1989. I've done a variety of things but two basic jobs: TV Master Control back when everything ran off of video tape and TV Traffic. In the words of the Grateful Dead "What a long strange trip it's been". There's been good times and bad times, good folks and bad folks. Fortunately, the good has outweighed the bad.

They may call me back for things... I don't know. A lot of people - in particular my boss - don't want me to leave. I've trained two people to take my job (it's complicated) so the station should be okay.

So many feelings.

-m
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[personal profile] dewline 2025-10-23 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I get it. Leaving a job after so long...mixed feelings are the order of the moment.

I envy that sort of stability. My father had it, after a fashion, although we kept getting moved around the country as part of the price tag. I'm never going to know such stability in my work life. Never have, really. Only now am I starting to understand why, and it's going to keep costing me in other ways...
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[personal profile] moxie_man 2025-10-24 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats on retirement.