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But not the glamorous side of marketing, more the operational side where I'm responsible for telling our hundreds of thousands of customers when something has gone wrong, gone right, or when there's anything they need to know. I prefer it to being someone who writes advertisements that just get deleted/skimmed by a spam filter. You can't avoid my E-mails.
But I am also a published writer with over ten 40k books with my name in the writing credits (and even more in other places). So that's pretty cool.
Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote: So, I'm reaching the term of my contract in the army and soon back to civilian life, so I had to choose a new job to learn. Going for welding, if everything goes right. Got a year apprenticeship ahead.
Got me thinking while fooling around on dakka: what's your profession, fellow dakkanauts?
I'm a mechanical engineer and I am lucky enough to live from my passion, as I'm basically making tanks.
@Maréchal des Logis Walter : I know your profile picture intimately
Thought i'd change the picture since I'm officially a welder trainee since two weeks ago but hey
40k: Necrons/Imperial Guard/ Space marines
Bolt Action: Germany/ USA
Project Z.
"The Dakka Dive Bar is the only place you'll hear what's really going on in the underhive. Sure you might not find a good amasec but they grill a mean groxburger. Just watch for ratlings being thrown through windows and you'll be alright." Ciaphas Cain, probably.
General Practitioner and owner of a group practice.
2024: Games Played:0/Models Bought:15/Sold:0/Painted: 89
2023: Games Played:0/Models Bought:287/Sold:0/Painted: 203
2020-2022: Games Played:42/Models Bought:1271/Sold:631/Painted:442
2016-19: Games Played:369/Models Bought:772/Sold:378/ Painted:268
2012-15: Games Played:412/Models Bought: 1163/Sold:730/Painted:436
ccs wrote: Officially retired Toy Salesman/big retail management.
Congrats on retirement.
I am interested in hearing some more about this.
It's a story with 4 parts.
1 happy, 3 sad.
Pt.1, 2005 (sad): Toys R US is bought out by a group of private equity firms. Resulting in us being buried under billions of dollars of debt.
@$×&* leveraged buyout.....
Pt.2, 2005 - 2018 (happy):
Seeing the writing on the wall....
I kicked my financial security/retirement plan into HIGH gear.
I Worked like hel +, more importantly, became very educated on how to make $ (and i was already good at it). I then proceeded to make a hell-a-lot of $ in those years.
I set an official retirement date of Jan 25th, 2020.
(That'd allow me to wrap up the 2019 Christmas season and the year end inventory - without rolling into TRUs next fiscal year)
Pt.3, 2018 (sad):
Well, all that debt TRU had from being bought out in 2005? As I'd predicted, it finally killed us.
We closed mid-2018 here in the USA. .
19 months short of my retirement date. I didn't get the joy of sending my boss a postcard from somewhere warm & sandy. :(
Not a huge inconvenience financially though - I'd hit my retirement funding goal about 3 years prior. So I just joked that I was "on vacation".
Pt.4, mid-Jan 2020 (very sad):
My mother dropped over dead.
Had a stroke while feeding the cat I'm told. Well that was about 15-20 years earlier than anyone expected! :(
She left behind a considerable estate.
And then the pandemic hit....
Being the Co-Executor of a very sizable estate & having to do it admist a pandemic screwing everything up - well I was no longer on vacation.
My new full-time job became paperwork.
Finally, eventually, the estate wrapped up & my brother & I are now in charge of the family assets.
Though Mondays & Tuesdays are still dedicated to paperwork. (Monday = family assets, Tue = personal assets)
There is now no doubt that I'm retired though.
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My $0.02, which since 1992 has rounded to nothing. Take with salt.
Elysian Drop Troops, Dark Angels, 30K
Mercenaries, Retribution
Ten Thunders, Neverborn
ccs wrote: Officially retired Toy Salesman/big retail management.
Congrats on retirement.
I am interested in hearing some more about this.
It's a story with 4 parts.
1 happy, 3 sad.
Pt.1, 2005 (sad): Toys R US is bought out by a group of private equity firms. Resulting in us being buried under billions of dollars of debt.
@$×&* leveraged buyout.....
Pt.2, 2005 - 2018 (happy):
Seeing the writing on the wall....
I kicked my financial security/retirement plan into HIGH gear.
I Worked like hel +, more importantly, became very educated on how to make $ (and i was already good at it). I then proceeded to make a hell-a-lot of $ in those years.
I set an official retirement date of Jan 25th, 2020.
(That'd allow me to wrap up the 2019 Christmas season and the year end inventory - without rolling into TRUs next fiscal year)
Pt.3, 2018 (sad):
Well, all that debt TRU had from being bought out in 2005? As I'd predicted, it finally killed us.
We closed mid-2018 here in the USA. .
19 months short of my retirement date. I didn't get the joy of sending my boss a postcard from somewhere warm & sandy. :(
Not a huge inconvenience financially though - I'd hit my retirement funding goal about 3 years prior. So I just joked that I was "on vacation".
Pt.4, mid-Jan 2020 (very sad):
My mother dropped over dead.
Had a stroke while feeding the cat I'm told. Well that was about 15-20 years earlier than anyone expected! :(
She left behind a considerable estate.
And then the pandemic hit....
Being the Co-Executor of a very sizable estate & having to do it admist a pandemic screwing everything up - well I was no longer on vacation.
My new full-time job became paperwork.
Finally, eventually, the estate wrapped up & my brother & I are now in charge of the family assets.
Though Mondays & Tuesdays are still dedicated to paperwork. (Monday = family assets, Tue = personal assets)
There is now no doubt that I'm retired though.
What happened to TRU was ridiculous. Congrats on retirement, though.
Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote: Thought i'd change the picture since I'm officially a welder trainee since two weeks ago but hey
Don't put a picture of your girlfriend otherwise my previous post will sounds really weird !
Hmmm, yeah. Yeah. J'avoue
40k: Necrons/Imperial Guard/ Space marines
Bolt Action: Germany/ USA
Project Z.
"The Dakka Dive Bar is the only place you'll hear what's really going on in the underhive. Sure you might not find a good amasec but they grill a mean groxburger. Just watch for ratlings being thrown through windows and you'll be alright." Ciaphas Cain, probably.
40k: Necrons/Imperial Guard/ Space marines
Bolt Action: Germany/ USA
Project Z.
"The Dakka Dive Bar is the only place you'll hear what's really going on in the underhive. Sure you might not find a good amasec but they grill a mean groxburger. Just watch for ratlings being thrown through windows and you'll be alright." Ciaphas Cain, probably.
Cadre Coronal Afterglow w1;d0;l0 
Elysian Drop Troops, 
Dark Angels, 30K
