Hah. I learned when I was ~8. My wife wanted to learn to play, she saw me play on my phone.
She does NOT give up. We played 100 games before she beat me. It was great. It’s still a bit of a mis-match though, we are seeing that we think differently. I’m more of a spatial thinker, she is more numbers.
Speak for yourself. I’ve already retired twice, and I’m not sure when i might retire again, but i expect to do so.
With <2 years to go at the tail end of 40 year career, I have even less enthusiasm than previously about embracing the latest reorganization or technical change. Yeah, I’ll keep up on any changes needed to keep doing my job well, but leave the gung-ho stuff for the younger whipper snappers.
And while we are at it - I will continue to be among the top 5% of producers as I consistently have been the past 4 decades. But the nitpicking as to what was moved from status to status in how many days is falling on deafer ears than previously.
Curious dynamics in casa Dinsdale. As I am looking towards impending retirement, my wife is seemingly close to being hired in a permanent position after 30+ years as part-time. Damn! Am I gonna have to take over some of the considerable work she does to maintain the household once I’m no longer “bringing home the bacon”? Am I gonna have to be her “people” now?
Shortly after I declared to HR I would retire in a year the bank we belonged to for eight years finally noticed us and made changes. A layer of management was removed from the building and moved to Dallas and being a bank, another layer or two of management might have been added – I don’t know.
The big change for us worker bees on the phones was the main metric was changed from first call resolution to average handle time. Before, if we spotted something that could cause trouble we’d been encouraged to mention it and fix it if the client was willing to spend the time. Now it was get off the call and onto the next call ASAP.
The compliments we used to get about being one of the best help desks around dried up and I went from the top two or three in ranking to the bottom quarter. That November when we had our evaluations my suoervisor said, “Sorry, but with your standing we jut can’t give you a raise this year.”
I just said as deadpan as I could manage, “Gosh.” Knowing I was retiring in four months he flashed a smile and we went on.
I didn’t get a raise in my last review either. I knew I was retiring and told the big boss to not give me a raise and to distribute it to someone else.
I/we still mow the yard (well now that we have a yard). I take care of all the household projects, with small exceptions of things I simply can’t do. Custom fit stuff that I really can’t do. Like blinds.
We do have ‘people’ now though. House cleaners twice a month. Yeah it costs a bit but it’s so, so nice.