Retirement with an awesome person
No, my husband isn’t retired quite yet but as of today there are only eight more work days until he is retired. He is certainly excited, but his excitement is tempered with the realization that after 38 years with Boeing as a trusted, well-respected, structures engineer, those skills will no longer be needed from him. Others at the company will have to take over his work, and let me tell you, that’ll be a difficult task for them to accomplish.
Guess what? You can’t take off or land without the airplane part that my husband was responsible for. Oh sure, there are many planes in the Boeing system but Jerry was intimately involved with several generations of those planes.
Even the President of the United States relies on landing gear to get from point A to B and back again. That’s right, the current President and several before him should be thanking Jerry for having the skill level my husband has, I mean, just think about it, the entire weight of an airplane is on the nose and main landing gears … you really, really want them to be structurally sound.
This same extraordinary engineer is also my husband and has been since February of 2000. And guess what? I get to be a part of his retirement experience and I am privileged to be able to grow old (older) with him for many years to come.
The Boeing Company was honored to have my husband in their employ for thirty-eight 38!!!!! years.
Now I get to have him all to myself.
And that makes me extremely happy.
Living: the ultimate team sport 
April 23, 2016 at 2:03 am
Beautiful !
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April 22, 2016 at 2:16 pm
Congratulations and best wishes to both of you.
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April 22, 2016 at 3:23 pm
Thank you, Theresa. Very much looking forward to it.
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April 18, 2016 at 9:26 am
Boeing was lucky to have him! Congratulations! Wishing you both the best in your next adventure.
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April 18, 2016 at 9:31 am
Thanks so much, Jill. So looking forward to him being retired, me continuing to write, and me continuing to try to get published…an agent who had my full manuscript (of my 1st novel) e-mailed me today with a rejection. I thanked her and then queried her with my 2nd novel, the one I wrote during NaNoWriMo, and I pasted the first 50 pages in the body of the e-mail just for the heck of it. There’s nothing timid about me … at all.
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April 18, 2016 at 9:45 am
I’m happy for you both. Sorry about the rejection, but it comes with the territory. Yay for you for pressing on…eventually one will stick! 🙂
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