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43. I was tempted, but getting too close to retirement...

Thu Jun 26, 2025, 01:10 PM

Jun 26

...and while not ready to stop working, I figured the likelihood of finding a new job in my 60s was pretty nil. I liked my patients, and most of my colleagues, and the idea of starting over somewhere else, and possibly needing to learn a new electronic medical records system just wasn't appealing.

When I did retire, I was given a pretty crystal vase at a nice dinner held in my boss's home. Given the past history of relative stinginess (the 65 cent raise wasn't the only such incident over my nearly 25 years there), I looked up the item. It was priced at $75 dollars, so essentially a retirement gift that cost a mere $3 for every year I was there. I would think that length of service for an income generating employee should have been worth at least $250.

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