After 25 years on the workshop floor of car dealerships I got lucky and ended up as senior Technical Trainer for Kia Motors UK Ltd. Retired 5 years ago.
Became a ‘Return to Biking’ bloke at 65 and still going strong on my 2017 Street Twin and love it.
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NSA, that’s as much as I can say 
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NSA, that’s as much as I can say
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Spent all but the first eighteen months of my working life in IT which used to be called Data Processing back in the day. The first eighteen months were spent controlling the volume of production in a felt producing factory. Retired in 2011 and kept a part time job driving doctors around two evenings a week for a private “out of hours” primary care company until 2020. One of those companies that drains the NHS and is staffed by incompetent ex NHS managers.
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Joined the army straight from school in 1968 and spent six happy years being a PTI and combat engineer. When I left I bounce around driving trucks an buses for a couple of years, before falling into a job as a computer operator. This led to a career in IT that allowed me to retire at 52 from a high street bank. I then went into IT contracting as a programmer manager working for ftse100 companies including (Banks, Rolls Royce, Water Utilities, Gaming company and Retail companies and others). I fully retired in 2016 and now enjoy riding my bikes and time with my family.
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Lots of IT types here…
I retired 5 years ago at 55 from a job as the main IT support for British Gas Smart Meters.
Everybody reckoned I would need to take a part time job to ‘keep yourself busy’ retiring at that age.
So I bought a few more bikes and now spend my time in the summer either riding the Tiger to the South of France or riding the Street RS or ZX-10R on trackdays in Spain and locally.
Working on the bikes keeps me busy in the winter.
Only real downside (if you can call it that) is none of the people I ride with are retired, so the long distance stuff I tend to do on my own.
On the other hand, the Spain trackdays are basically drinking for a couple of days, thrashing the bike for three days and then drinking the rest of the week with a great bunch of people 
Just got back from Spain and off to St Lucia with the other half in a weeks time, then off to France on the bike at the end of June.
I haven’t got the spare time for a job! 
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Lucky feckers!!!
I find work an awful inconvenience… I’m stuck programming CNC machines and a bit of everything joinery related
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It sounds like you’re living the dream. Whereabouts in Spain are your track days?
I’ve done Almeria twice and Cartagena once so far.
I go with a small company that is expensive, but there’s only 40ish bikes on track with an Open Pit lane for 3 or 4 days, so well worth the extra! 
Sometimes it’s like you have the entire track to yourself 
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Sounds like fun to me! If you fancy writing up and sharing some pics from one of your visits I’m sure people would be interested - I know I would be.
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Some people have all the cream!! 
Here’s a taster from last year at Almeria, Akrapovic with no baffle… 
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More bottle than I have sir!
I’d be thinking “pound notes” on every corner i’m afraid.
It’s nice to see the brakes coming on as you can see the rear rise up when you do hit 'em!
Thanks for posting!
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Well I started to describe what I do, but almost fell into a coma. So I shall just say an IT Specialist which I’ve been doing for over 30 years and before that a lab technician.
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IT jobs are often hard to explain without having people glaze over. Unless you’re already in it. What’s your area of specialisation?
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I’m an EDI Consultant. For those that don’t know what that is it stands for Electronic Data Interchange (sending and receiving of business transactions electronically for example orders or invoices).
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That is quite specialist. I did know what it meant, though.
My last tunnel before I retired. I was presented with a chunk of rock with a plaque inscribed “The hardest rock this side of Mars”. And it was. Roughly 10 times stronger than 40N concrete. Took a lot of explosive to get it out. I miss the smell of the deep.
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I started as an apprentice with the Post office telephones, later to be privatised by Maggie as British Telecom, then being rebranded as BT. I took EVR and my company pension in 2015 after deciding I’d had enough after 42 years and don’t miss it one bit as the later years in the job were very frustrating which wasn’t an ideal way to finish a career. I mostly hit a white ball round the countryside now trying to get it into a small hole, that’s frustrating at times but far more enjoyable than w*rk was even on a bad batting day.
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Yup. That’s pretty much where I’m at. Love my golf even on bad days, as you say it beats that four letter word called w*rk….
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