Well I retired from GM today

[BobsArmory]

Today was my last day at General Motors. Took a buyout and started my pension. Spent 1 year working assembly at Lansing Car Assembly making Grand Ams, Buicks and Oldsmobiles. A few years working Plant 3 Metal Fab then a few more years in the materials dept at Lansing Grand River Plant building Caddies and Camaros. Then, I graduated to Global Customer Audit, finally ending up working Metrology in LGR's CMM Room.

Now I need to find something else to do with my time. Maybe running coordinate measuring machines for a supplier or fabrication facility ( I got pretty good working with PC-DMIS, Zeiss Inspect and Polyworks). Maybe working as a liaison for a supplier in a local GM plant. Maybe something completely different, who knows.

All I know is that I can't sit at home eating chips and drinking beer since my wife doesn't give me enough of an allowance for that. ;-)

Kind of exciting trying to figure out what my future will be.

 

[Dave Hess]

Congratulations for a job well done.

Enjoy your well deserved retirement.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Buy a puppy.

 

[Passport1]

Congratulations!

Get a non automotive hobby. I suggest gardening. Now be nice to your wife. Suddenly she has twice as much husband and half as much paycheck.

 

[NormanBuntz]

Look at retirement like a long lasting automobile or truck. You want yourself to wear out, not rust out. Get a hobby you can enjoy.

 

[sw99]

Congratulations! Now you'll be busier than ever. I don't know how I ever found time to work...

 

[BobsArmory]

Buy a puppy.

Oh No. One is enough!

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Enjoy

 

[opus1]

Congratulations! Now you'll be busier than ever. I don't know how I ever found time to work...

I hear that a lot. I'm hoping to find out for myself someday...

 

[shortyb]

Congratulations! Now you'll be busier than ever. I don't know how I ever found time to work...

This. Have been able to get a lot of little projects that got pushed aside done though. I did, however, make a daily schedule with a few no negotiation activities; coffee, exercise (gym or at home), nap, and cigar with bourbon before bedtime. Whats left over goes to doing all the other stuff. Never been happier.

 

[fdcg27]

Congratulations!
You've pulled the trigger and from what everyone I know who has retired has told me, you'll be very happy to have done so.

 

[TimeFlies]

Congratulations!

 

[JeffKeryk]

Well done. Enjoy your retirement! Every day is Saturday without the traffic!

 

[thescreensavers]

I owned a 2017 SS 1LE Camaro maybe you touched it at one point going through the line!

Enjoy this next chapter

 

[alarmguy]

Congratulations on your retirement! Cool thing is you can pursue any passion that you want with no pressure!

 

[BobsArmory]

I owned a 2017 SS 1LE Camaro maybe you touched it at one point going through the line!

Enjoy this next chapter

Very well could have

 

[Patman]

Congratulations!
I retired two years ago at age 53 after 31 years doing retouching with Photoshop. Last summer my ex wife and I started a tour company in the Niagara region and I do a lot of historical walking tours and I love it! There isn’t as much work in the winter (although I did three walking tours in the past week) but it’s very busy in the other three seasons (especially the summer months) It doesn’t even feel like a job, it’s so much fun meeting new people from all around the world.

So eventually you might want a stress free part time job too.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Congrats. From your experience there could maybe be some type of supply chain or consulting business you could start for yourself.
I recall it took me over a year to get used to being retired after working over 40 years.

 

[UncleDave]

congrats on a retirement well deserved and powering America.
Onward. Reach out if you are ever in Nor Cal.

 

[Wrenchturner44]

Today was my last day at General Motors. Took a buyout and started my pension. Spent 1 year working assembly at Lansing Car Assembly making Grand Ams, Buicks and Oldsmobiles. A few years working Plant 3 Metal Fab then a few more years in the materials dept at Lansing Grand River Plant building Caddies and Camaros. Then, I graduated to Global Customer Audit, finally ending up working Metrology in LGR's CMM Room.

Now I need to find something else to do with my time. Maybe running coordinate measuring machines for a supplier or fabrication facility ( I got pretty good working with PC-DMIS, Zeiss Inspect and Polyworks). Maybe working as a liaison for a supplier in a local GM plant. Maybe something completely different, who knows.

All I know is that I can't sit at home eating chips and drinking beer since my wife doesn't give me enough of an allowance for that. ;-)

Kind of exciting trying to figure out what my future will be.

Congrats! I owned a 2002 Olds Alero that was without a doubt one of the best built cars I have ever owned. I bought her used with 36k on the clock at 10 years old. It had the coldest AC of any car I ever owned, and had the most comfortable interior of any other car that I have ever owned in that size range. Hats off to the team at Lansing Assembly who made it. It was a great car during the time I owned it.

Find something to retire to. If that is going back to work for smaller supplier, so be it. Maybe take a gunsmith course and get involved with that vocation if you have interest given your screen name.

Most importantly, dont sweat the small stuff......you have earned it.