I just submitted the official university paperwork resigning from my appointment as of April 2027. One more year, and then I’m outta here.
Don’t ask me how I feel about it yet. Ask me a year from today, when it gets real.
Right now I’m mainly stressed about the fact that Boeing sent me a letter saying they overpaid on my mother’s death benefits, and they want $5000 back right now. On the one hand, that’s peanuts for Boeing, they can go overcharge the government for a bolt to get that money back; on the other hand, do I really want to get in a fight with Boeing?
Yes, fight them on general principles. What are they gonna do — drop a airplane on your head?
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While the odds of Boeing landing a suit safely in court may seem low, it would cost money to fight them. If it would cost more to fight than you are going to lose, then it becomes economically questionable to fight.
No takebacks! Make them pry it out of your cold dead hands. It always surprises me how often people are willing to give away their money when the demand comes on letterhead.
Were you at Morris in ’97 ’98? My late brother in law was there then and probably would have been in your class if you were.
Congrats on having an exit date. I stopped clinical practice a couple of years ago and I still don’t know how I feel about it.
But who’ll look after the spiders?!
Offer to pay it back at $1 a month.
On another note. Now that you are retiring what happens to your spider research and your lab? Do you get to continue to do research with some sort of quid pro quo with the university?
#4: No, I started in 2000.
#6, #7: The spiders will come home with me.
I am touched that people are concerned about the spiders.
Do you have a legal plan as one of your employment benefits? You might get a free hour consultation to discuss the situation. What about the attorney who handled the estate? There is a time limit for recoupment that varies by state, maybe they waited too long.
I’m retiring in 16 days from my job at a large technology company after 12 years in my current position, total of 26 years as an employee with the company over three jobs since 1984, plus innumerable contracts between jobs.
For what it’s worth to you…or anybody: it’s friggin’ complicated and difficult to retire.
Retired attorney here. I had the same worries as I approached retirement. They vanished in the first year. No one can take away the things you’ve done, or the person you are.