{"id":14536,"date":"2026-09-05T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14536"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:28:20","slug":"what-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14536","title":{"rendered":"What? Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve initiated a &#8220;staff departure&#8221; and my last day of part-time work at Space Telescope will be at the end of this month. Then it&#8217;s back to the retired life again. When I came back I set myself a goal of working it at least until the Roman Space Telescope launched. And now it has. So my goal is met. And I think this time, it <em>is<\/em> time.<\/p>\n<p>That first time I really didn&#8217;t want to belly flop into being retired but part-time work wasn&#8217;t available at the Institute then. So when my project lead came to me after a couple years and asked if I was interested in coming back part-time I jumped at the chance. Now I think it really is time to move on. I&#8217;ll always be a part of it, my den walls are full of artifacts from my 26 years working for a NASA contractor, but it will be good to have the time to explore my art more. I want to give my cameras and my drafting table more love now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to miss having that extra amount of income, and it&#8217;s probably going to be scary watching my 401k slowly shrink, but so it goes. It&#8217;ll be a comfortable, if not fabulous retired life. I have a house of my own. My car is paid for. My health insurance is good. My neighborhood is walkable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve initiated a &#8220;staff departure&#8221; and my last day of part-time work at Space Telescope will be at the end of this month. Then it&#8217;s back to the retired life again. When I came back I set myself a goal of working it at least until the Roman Space Telescope launched. And now it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-14536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-retirement-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14537,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14536\/revisions\/14537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}