Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 2, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > Subject: [Leica] OT: I've retired > >> LUG friends: Today is the first day of the rest of my life. As of >> today, I have retired from my corporate IT job. >> ... >> ... >> Wish me luck! I'd love to hear from anyone (either here or privately) >> who has been though this transition and has some tips for dealing >> gracefully with the changes. wonderful Peter, congratulations..... give me a call sometime, Steve > >> --Peter > ====================================================================================================================================================== > Welcome to retirement and good luck to you. I retired last May after 40 > years at Photographic Services, thankfully just in time to deal with some > family medical emergencies, and I don't know how I could have coped while > still working full time. Things have stabilized and I think I can start > to enjoy my new status. I have time to organize my personal photo > collection for posterity and it is fun to find images that I never printed > or forgot about. This also dovetails with a UWM History Department project > called the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee that I'm involved in. A graduate > student and I meet every few weeks to go through my slides and contact > sheets to pick pictures that can be scanned for this initiative. > > Since May I've had numerous dreams in which I'm on assignment, having > trouble with light stands falling over, or flash slaves not working, etc. > and then realizing - Hey, I don't have to do this anymore! I can just > take pictures for me. What a relief. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA POY 1978 > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information