Monday, November 20, 2006

Decisions...Decisions

I mentioned earlier that I worked for Ford Motor Co and as most of you know they are currently restructuring the company. They have offered some good buyouts and one in particular that I qualify for I may take. There is a special early retirement package that basically gives you your retirement package that you have accrued without any penalties. Well when I told my dad this he decided to put a "bug" in my ear and offered me the opportunity to come up and work in the shop. It is basically the same deal he received years ago when the Ford plant he was (actually we both were) working in closed in 1980. So before November 27th I have to make up my mind on whether to go up and work with my dad, stay with Ford or take the deal and stay in Buffalo and find something else to make a bit of money. Decisions, decisions. I'm kind of leaning on going up to NH and work for a bit then come back to Buffalo for a week, then back to NH. I don't want to sell my house here it took a while to find one and I love it. Great neighborhood, lots to do in the city. Where the shop is in NH is literally a mile from the end of pavement! Certainly not much night life there. I guess you could find culture if you looked. (I know it's hard to tell whether I'm trying to talk myself into it or out of it.) I do like to restore things, lord knows I love to buy these old houses and work on them. The two houses I've owned one in PA was build around 1837 (lived there 16 years) and the one I bought in buffalo was built around 1880 (been here 3.) So bottom line I have my paperwork in at Ford to take a buyout and I have until November 27 to change my mind and pull my paperwork out!

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