Sounds fun! I'm ready to retire, but my bank account says I only THINK I'm ready... :-) I WISH somebody else would have paid for me to go to college!!! What a deal!!!!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Hamid" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 8:40 AM Subject: [ARMSTRONG] chosen occupations? > I worked for Hewlett-Packard for 24 years. Started as a clerk in the > Corporate mailroom. I later worked as a secretary (called Adminsitrative > Assistant). Then HP paid for me to go to college and after I got my > degree > I worked as internal technical support. HP offered me early retirement > last > October and I took it. (Glad I did, my entire department has since been > laid > off). My husband worked as a tax assessor for Sacramento County > (California) and hated it. He quit and we bought a Take and Bake pizza > store > (no delivery, no cooking, we make pizzas to order and customer cooks it at > home). I cashed out my pension and we are using that $ as down payment on > a > second business, a sandwich shop. So I am not really retired, more like a > career change and I am now my own boss. The chickens are more of a > hobby. > The birds pay for themselves. I make a little money but it mostly goes to > finance my hobby. > > Linda Hamid