Yesterday was my last as an employee

[PaulMarcel]

Congratulations! We're also going to go through a rough transition with your retirement. Your posts like "new table WIP" and we open it to see a table that fits atop a modest bench will be jarring at first compared to the behemoths that take a 3-car garage for assembly, like in the past.

Now to get on those "home shop WIP" posts

 

[peter halle]

Congratulations on your career move from a slightly different perspective! I imagine that it will will strange for quite some time, but in time, gradually, you'll get more used to it. As Cheese wrote, I certainly noticed that personal things took longer to accomplish once I had more time to do them. I know I have always looked forward to your posts and will continue to see your "work" from a different perspective.

Peter

 

[daveva]

I retired 10 years ago and I often wonder how I had time to go to work. Family keeps me very busy. I'm not complaining. I enjoy it.

 

[smorgasbord]

CRG, I've read many of your project posts with envy, especially around the space in the shop there. Now that you're joining the rest of us with garage/basement workshops of a few hundred square feet, I'll be curious to see how you cope. Jewelry boxes will be easy, Chairs fine, but get into desks and then dining room tables or entry doors and I think you'll be feeling the pain I always feel. I get over it, but spend far too much time moving stuff around in the shop for those bigger projects.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

@smorgasbord I know exactly what you mean. I have looked at traditional woodworking benches as some kind of easy-bake oven type thing. Who works on a bench that is 2 feet wide (or less) and only 5 feet long? Well, it turns out, a lot of people. I have already down-sized to 36" x 96", which is quite a bit, from what I had, but it may need to be smaller yet. I have yet to do anything, other than re-construct the miter station and install some of the Systainer drawers. My brain says "floor space", but I know that's not nearly as critical as it was before. At this point, it's about learning to use wall space, which I didn't really have. Then there is the fact that I can leave things "out", since it is not shared space.

 

[luvmytoolz]

Then there is the fact that I can leave things "out", since it is not shared space.

One of the many things to love about working on your own in the shed. That I can put tools down anywhere and know the next day they'll be exactly where I left them is great.

Unless of course it's a 10mm socket or a measuring tape. Good luck finding them the next day.

 

[Cheese]

Ya, well I like this thread, it's given me a lot more input into the folks that post here regularly. Over the years, no one seems to want to put their age in the statistics file and admit to what age they are but with these recent posts it starts to become increasingly clear that we're all the same relative age group, plus or minus some small multiple and you can't hide from age.

So why does that make a difference? The number one rule in communications is "know your audience". Up until now, I didn't know who I was talking to, an experienced person, an unexperienced person or a professional person. That determines your delivery and how you frame stuff so that folks at all levels of competency understand things equally. Explaining it is the thing and if you can't explain it thoroughly, why waste your time and energy that will go nowhere?

 

[six-point socket II]

Congrats @Crazyraceguy on the milestone. Have a great time!

Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[luvmytoolz]

"Over the years, no one seems to want to put their age in the statistics file and admit to what age they are"

I looked but "dinosaur" didn't appear as an option for me.

 

[jeffinsgf]

Ya, well I like this thread, it's given me a lot more input into the folks that post here regularly. Over the years, no one seems to want to put their age in the statistics file and admit to what age they are but with these recent posts it starts to become increasingly clear that we're all the same relative age group, plus or minus some small multiple and you can't hide from age.

So why does that make a difference? The number one rule in communications is "know your audience". Up until now, I didn't know who I was talking to, an experienced person, an unexperienced person or a professional person. That determines your delivery and how you frame stuff so that folks at all levels of competency understand things equally. Explaining it is the thing and if you can't explain it thoroughly, why waste your time and energy that will go nowhere?

Years ago when Nancy and I were doing the Woodworking Shows every week, we had a conversation about a potential customer that had said he was going to come back to finish a transaction. Neither of us caught his name and we were trying to make sure we were talking about the same guy. She asked me to describe him. I said, "Fairly tall, medium build, gray hair, glasses and a little bit of a tummy." She looked at me with a smirk and replied that I had just described myself and 80% of the people in the building.

 

[leakyroof]

I second what Onocoffee said--------Congratulations! The work you've shared has always been impressive. Hope your next chapter is happy and rewarding!
400 square feet though....THAT'S a big change in shop working space...