I’m just curious

  • cobysev@lemmy.world
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    I retired last summer at the crusty old age of 38 and have been dicking around with my home lab ever since. I’ve decided that computers are much more fun as a hobby than as a job.

    I retired from the US Air Force, where I served as a sysadmin for 20 years. With my pension and disability pay, I’m able to live comfortably without work now. I could go back into the field and easily double or triple my income… but then I won’t have all the free time to enjoy my life like I’m doing now. So, retired life is good enough for me.

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      Damn, 38 is pretty young. I guess that goes to show the importance of getting started on retirement early

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      1 year ago

      38, retired, live comfortably without work, enjoying life

      👍

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      1 year ago

      So is there a contractual obligation in the military to use the word “cyber” 42 times a day?

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        When I joined back in 2002, we were known as Communications, or Comm. The Cyber thing is actually pretty new. In the last few years, I was still calling us Comm guys. I had a new Airmen ask me why I didn’t call us Cyber guys; apparently, they finally started teaching that in our tech school. Our squadrons are still called Communications Squadrons, though.

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      Saving up everything I can for this.

      I take what I learn home but it can only get me so far without the proper hardware.