I'm gonna have a lot fewer "friends" after today.

[NorCalBlue]

59. My First DU Post

Hi Freddie,

I’ve never posted here before. This is my first. I retire soon after 35 yrs banging away at a male-dominated career. A very public one. I have so many “friends” on FB from my career. Some are real friends. Some are guys I worked with 30 plus years ago. Most are amazing. Some I keep just so I can stay aware of what the most fringiest of the right wingers are saying. I can count on one hand the (retired) serial posters who are so far down the GOP conspiracy rabbit hole that it takes a lot energy to see their memes clog my feed every day, but I do it to remind myself of who and what is out there.

I am counting the days to retirement. I can’t wait to be able to breathe. To post. Your comment spoke to me because it is exactly how I feel. At 60 I have been this career-being longer than my my non-work self. These last few years, and now these last few days, make me feel like a horse in the gate at a race track. I can’t wait to feel like you, Freddie.