OT - my old employer called

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Robert Henderson

>Whenever you are offered work you are ambivilent about, price yourself high enough so that you can't say no. If they don't meet your price then you have your time back. If they do meet it, you have a bunch of money to make up for the time.

Wise words!

Denis Ch�nard, Orl�ans, Ont.

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Good point, but it's not like you can bank that time for later use. Once used it's gone, forever.

Pam

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Don Pierson

>Take the job ONLY if it something you find rewarding...and I don't mean money wise.

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"RJ" Whelan

>Bill.... be cautious - I accepted a similar offer in '97; by the following year I was working 60 hour weeks again and I didn't retire for the second time until mid 2002.

The money was grand, but I'll never get those days in the shop/fishing/reading/listening to music/in pursuit of the perfect cup of coffee/with my wife/with my son back.

I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about those five years, but I'm leaning toward wishing I'd stayed poor and working as a furniture maker ... rj

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Wiley Horne--So. Calif.

>Hi Bill,

Wouldn't hurt to try it for a while. I did some consulting after retirement, and it's nice to see old friends regularly. But as RJ said, the work can take on a life of its own.

Here's my suggestion...If you can put the training on a schedule, and if it's something you can do without digging in and doing research and making up syllabi, etc, then it would be nice. The trick is how to keep the paid work #2 or #3 in your life. For me, it kept kinda creeping up there until it was #1 again, which was a problem for my family all my work life. I think that's the real issue: when you start working again, it may well challenge your priorities. It did me.

Wiley

Shortage of good people

Jim in Burlington On

>I tried retirement for 2 years. When I went back to work it's a completely different feeling. It's been a year and 4 months now. Things that got on my nerves seem to have no effect now.

Yes

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I priced myself pretty high, and they bit. Good news is it's time-limited (two days a week, a month at a time, a moderately explicit assignment that doesn't last forever). Other good news is that LOML and I have agreed that I get 10% of each month's net, so I can get some toys. Time to start the list.

Good for you Bill.

VLParisian

>When I am asked to take on a job that I'm reluctant to accept I always (well almost always) bid high. Sometimes I get suprised at how much I enjoy the job when the compensation is right.

10% for tools? are you sure that's enough?

Victor - looking forward to a long weekend.