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Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

TomD<\/a><\/p>\n

There is an INTENSE need for people who can think and have experience + a work ethic, goal driven. I\u2019m a subset of one out of 300 million+ so I can\u2019t exactly extrapolate but\u2014<\/p>\n

Like photog, I\u2019m an engineer but at 76.8 years old, a supposedly retired one. To keep myself in touch and engaged, I have a part time consulting business out of my house. I do design and in addition, construction contract and managing, budgeting and walk dogs on occasion.<\/p>\n

I have people coming out of the woodwork begging me to work for them. They tell me that the current system isn\u2019t generating people like me at the needed replacement rate.<\/p>\n

I have all the clients I want (2), I work all the hours a week that I want (15) and I have no intention of getting back in harness. I like the commute from my bedroom to my home office but I have problems keeping the cats off my plan table.<\/p>\n

Before retirement, we spent a couple of years trying to hire and train my replacement. A number of recent grads but there seemed to be at least something wrong with every one. No motivation, no work ethic, can\u2019t get out of bed, not interested, HUGE holes in their knowledge base, scatter brained. One of them could not generate a simple logical excel based budget\u00a0to save his life.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t do the typical retired thing, traveling, visiting grandkids, etc. My wife is well into Alzheimer\u2019s but not quite yet a nursing home candidate. So I\u2019m tied here. But if I\u2019m not working on something interesting, I\u2019m pretty sure I would rapidly dry up and blow away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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