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.
>
> Pat Goodyear
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