Operations Road Show<\/a> name and responsibility that I and a few friends took on in the late 1990s has been handed over to a group of Free-Mo N scalers as of mid-July 2025. The HO Wabash layout we built to support this still exists and consumes my Wednesday evenings and one Sunday a month. What this means is that since 1997 I have been actively a Wabash and Monon modeler in HO scale. This has gotten very much in the way of my modeling the Pere Marquette. No longer.<\/p>\nIn the process of packing for the move across town earlier this year, I was made aware of just how much I have accumulated in the way of non-PM HO equipment as well as non-HO stuff. This will be on sale tables that I have purchased this Fall across Southeast Michigan.<\/p>\n
Another change has been building over the past 26 months. I have decided, finally, that the tepid response to the more than three hundred resumes that I have submitted to companies since Ford sent 1,000 of us packing in mid-2023 is enough to justify my considering changing careers. I haven\u2019t figured out quite where that means I will land yet. I\u2019m still working on that. I certainly don\u2019t feel that I want to drive 35+ miles to work any more, unless there\u2019s a helluva lot of money involved. Nobody wanted a 57 year-old who was good at technology, and there is even less demand for a 59 year-old, even if he’s picked up a few new skills.<\/p>\n
I don’t know what I’ll be doing to be a year from now. Hopefully I’ll have at least started on a new layout in the current house. What I was doing before brought me a lot of money up until it didn’t. Money doesn’t buy happiness- yeah, we’ve all heard that before. But being a life-support system for a resume nobody wants to read doesn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy, either.<\/p>\n
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