{"id":14539,"date":"2026-09-15T20:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14539"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:02:54","slug":"exit-interview-havent-i-been-here-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14539","title":{"rendered":"Exit Interview. Haven&#8217;t I Been Here Before??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my exit interview earlier today at Space Telescope, although my last day isn\u2019t until the 30th. Looks like everything will happen smoothly. I got a lot of happy praise from the HR lady, who said I was a significant contributor to the work of the Institute and I should keep in touch. Which I will. I\u2019ve been promised a place at all the coworker happy hours to come.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to being retired again. The joke I&#8217;m hearing now is maybe second time&#8217;s the charm. And yeah&#8230;maybe this time I&#8217;ll handle it better. Now that I can see it was Parkinson&#8217;s that was causing my previous fatigue and brain fog I think I can, with the help of the meds, manage it better. I still have a Lot of art projects I want to get back on, including adding all the episodes I originally wanted to put into <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/acos-main.htm\"><em>A Coming Out Story<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I need to stick around to vote this November, but I\u2019ve bought my train tickets to California for soon after.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14542\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/meatsecondretirement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/meatsecondretirement.jpg 526w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/meatsecondretirement-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Me at 73&#8230;Still A Longhair&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my exit interview earlier today at Space Telescope, although my last day isn\u2019t until the 30th. Looks like everything will happen smoothly. I got a lot of happy praise from the HR lady, who said I was a significant contributor to the work of the Institute and I should keep in touch. Which [&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":[145,261],"class_list":["post-14539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-life","tag-the-retirement-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539","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=14539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14544,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions\/14544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}