I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.
When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.
I'm not retiring.
I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.