late night....

[curmugeon]

I'm saddened to read of all the people losing jobs. I guess we are in a deep recession, and now is the time to re-invent yourself. I'm amazed of my situation. I was informed yesterday afternoon that I have another $2 million in my budget.  The irony is we are not allowed to fill positions as they become vacant, so as people retire next year, we will be suffering cutbacks and the work will just pile on.

The cities are looking for some part of the bailout and some sort of stimulus package, especially a package of infrastructure improvements. I've crunched so many numbers the last few months preparing estimates for work we dream we could do.

I'm awake right now, but should think of sleep, as the workday starts too soon. The alarm clock will go off at 4 a.m..

To bed I go...

P.S.  I have been asked if I want to work part time as a consultant after I retire.

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[n6vfp.livejournal.com]

I'm close to retirement too. Yes, I worked as a cartographer using the ancient method of negative scribing for the Automobile Club of Southern California in the early 80's. I re-invented myslef as a computer savy technician shortly before the advent of the internet and found my way into civil engineering. I was on the ground floor of automation and computerization then but today their ar so many smart young kids waiting to take my job. I may or may not work after retirement and it will be a few more years till I'm getting any social security, (medicare is what I'm waiting for as I have to ay my own health insurance and it will be very costly).

There is no lack of work where I'm at and even though the city overall is hurting from the current economic crisis, as a department/division we are flush with cash and have more work than we can handle with the staff we have. We keep getting more work piled on, so much so that I will actually look forward to not having to juggle 5 or 6 projects at once.

Wish you the best, I almost went to work for Rand McNally in New York in the early 80's but after looking at what they were paying abd the cost of living didn't.