Thanks Phil,
I have already had offers for part time for the for seeable future,
doing special projects. I think I can handle 30 hours or less per
week until after the first of the year, then they already have me
scheduled starting in January at 6 days a week 12 hours a day for about
3 months, on nights, after that we'll see, one unit has overhaul and
refuel. Then next fall we have the other unit, which will be another 3
months.
One of the unique aspects of my profession one must be highly qualified
and proficient at each task we perform and due to my length of time I
have a very large list of qualifications, and this past month I
refreshed my proficiencies. One of which was passing my miniature
soldering and board repair quals. I have the necessary training quals
to train and test in those areas of which I am qualified. So with our
diminishing workforce of experienced personel they have asked that those
of us that can, to come back and train our replacements. Starting
with a basic trained tech it takes upwards of 5 years to fully train a
new one at the first level, 8 years for an apprentice. Not blowing my
horn, just the reality of the situation. We hired 7 tech's 9 years
ago and they just have completed the first round of quals, not many of
their advanced quals yet.
I was 20th on a list of 26 technicians, all of those senior to me have
indicated their desire to retire by 2015, I had over 31 years, the
junior tech has 29 years and is 2 years from minimum retirement age.
pat
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Phil Bavaro wrote:
> Best of luck and don't be a stranger here.
>
> In any event, stay productive. I can only handle about 18 months of
> early retirement before feeling the need to go back to work.
>
> Phil
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> Fellow Technetters, It is official, Monday Sept 30 will be my last
> official workday as an employee. I will set out on my own as a gun
> for hire.
>
> I will continue to subscribe to the list from my home email but, will
> be contracting my services. A new chapter is opening.
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> Pat Goodyear
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