[Leica] Re: Retirement

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Vick wrote:

> How many here are retired?
>
> How many are happier after retirement than when you were working?
>
> Regardless whether you are retired or not, what do you do to make  
> funds for
> those additional Leica purchases?


I retired in 1995. The first year after retirement was a ball. It was  
like a long vacation. We bought a boat in Florida and sailed it up  
the Atlantic seaboard to Maine. The second year my wife got tired of  
me hanging around the house and suggested that I find some way to  
actually look like I was working. I got a chance to be a Visiting  
Professor at the Univ. of Wales and we moved there for a couple of  
years. Next was a Fulbright Professorship at the Univ. of Delhi. We  
moved to India for a couple of years more. Finally we returned home  
to find the trees had grown another three feet and the lawn was taken  
over by a herd of whitetailed deer. The last couple of years, I have  
accepted that retirement means doing less - and I've learned to love  
it. As for buying new Leica equipment, the last new Leica film camera  
I bought was a CL in 1974. Most of my Leica gear is almost as old as  
I am. I did buy a Digilux digital a few years back but it crapped out  
on me. The film cameras are still going strong. Vick, just wait until  
a few more of us old farts die and you will be able to pick up M  
series cameras and lenses cheap. The kids have no interest in film.  
It's too hard to show the pictures on your iPod.

Larry Z