Driving Home from Work

[wlewisiii]

Got done at a bit after 7 am this morning at the hotel on a cold (-7 F/-20 C) January morning. But nice light 🙂

 

[Richard G]

That’s a lovely route to work. Love the en face shot of the shed.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Last flight to work, retiring a few months later.

 

[Richard G]

I might just have retired without knowing it, so no photo to prove it.

 

[Archiver]

I might just have retired without knowing it, so no photo to prove it.

Take a photo now so you'll have this moment, just in case.

 

[Archiver]

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Last flight to work, retiring a few months later.

It's wonderful that you have this photo. It would be personally evocative of that time and feeling.

I just drove home from conducting interviews for a work project, and coincidentally, the subjects were staying near my old workplace from 25 years ago. On the last day of work back then, I had been let go from a job I'd held for a couple of years, and was in shock as I hadn't seen it coming. I said my goodbyes to the many friends I'd made and drove home in a daze, and unconsciously took off my name tag and dropped it in the console. I had never taken off my name tag on the way home before. As I drove home this afternoon, I passed along the very same road that was my way home in those days, and through the intersection where I took off my name tag. It seems kind of fitting that this topic comes up almost exactly 25 years on. Please excuse my ramble, haha.

 

[Out to Lunch]

my ramble

Thanks for sharing. That must have been a profound moment. Not in my case since I decided to pull the plug and control my exit from the labor market.