On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 10:51, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > > On 2023-03-09 at 15:02:53 -0800, > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yeesh. What's _really_ embarassing is that I just stumbled across a > > small test program with which I had apparently figured this out 10-12 > > years ago. Must be about time to retire... > > Retiring doesn't help. :-) > > I retired almost five years ago, and I just (within the past few days) > (re)discovered a command line parsing library I'd written about a year > and a half ago (i.e., after I retired). >
Traditional retirement: Work till you're 60 or 65 or whatever, then society pats you on the head, calls you a "senior citizen", and lets you go and be idle till you die (which might be prematurely soon). Direction-change retirement: Work till you can afford to zero out your income, then finally do what you've always wanted to do, but never had time because you spent so much of it earning money. Tell-the-next-generation: Work till you know so much that you're infinitely valuable, then spend the rest of your life empowering the next group of amazing people. See for instance: NASA. Programmer retirement: At an early age, learn how to wield PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER, and spend the next X years in an itty bitty working space, earning money. Eventually, upgrade to better living/working space. Eventually, downgrade to a small wooden box six feet below the ground. Never once relinquish the power. Never once abandon that feeling of mastery. We're not really an industry that has a concept of retirement. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list