This summer marks 4 years since being forced into early retirement after Lockheed laid me off back in 2015. There were plenty of opportunities for me to keep going down in Waterton somewhere or with ULA, but those positions entailed hour-long commutes. Getting in and out of the car has become one of my least favorite things to do with advancing arthritis, so I decided it just wasn’t worth enduring that any longer. Declining health was probably the biggest factor in deciding to get out of the rat race, so it was certainly a blessing in disguise, on more than one count.
