Retiring (Sorta)

I have worked almost 30 years at a police/jail dept. I am the only maintenance person there. I was offered a job at a retirement facility with decent pay and benefits that is 5 minutes from my house. Current job is 45 min in good weather and light traffic.

I will retire from current job which pension will make up the difference in pay and then some. I will lose a lot of vacation but I don't really take a lot of time off. I will get half of my saved sick time which amounts to 540 hours, I will also have about 8 weeks of vacation time coming from this year and 2 weeks saved from last.

I will be on call every third week instead of 24/7 365!
No more hills and farmland to cross in blizzard or ice storms!
They will pay for me to get Class B CDL license.
Free meal every shift!
7 am to 3 pm instead of 5:30 am to 1:30 pm
They will pay $50 a month extra to use cell phone for work purposes.
5 miles round trip compared to 50 miles
Did I mention 5 min from home?!!!

Hard part is still a few of the old crew at job I will miss
I started at new building and only one to do it there.

A new chapter I suppose. Job I'm leaving is a dream job and was for me for years but I need something new and having 2 other guys to help will be awesome. I'm hoping it rejuvenates me till I'm ready to totally retire.