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Luckily all the contributors with the aim of 'helping' ( and also the posters who told of their solutions ) ended up being a nice big database for solving stuff for the new young people coming into shooting and editing.
I read books and sometimes I read one that is about a mystery or event that 'happened' in a small English village or some rural town in the U.S., etc. And it is inevitable that the story develops 'characters' that interact with each other ( sometimes with some local gossip thrown in ). Agatha Christie comes to mind. Shakespeare. In a way even the most early recorded 'plays' from ancient Greece, deal with this stuff.. what might be called HUMANITY ( or the humanities ).
Luckily, stories ( Libretto, plays, novels, movies, dance, etc. ) involve the nice creative people in ways that afford them a way to make a living ( hopefully ). Shooting weddings or taking still shots at weddings, is as much a storytelling exercise as shooting a hamburger on a tabletop. Or a major motion picture, or an episodic TV show.
I think the important thing with age ( and some wisdom acquired ) is that a respectful acceptance of history and past associations is fit into a comfortable space ( within our egos ) where forward progress to create and help and ( yes, it's true ) 'love' each other as much as possible … is a goal worth pursuing.
It's not about 'goodbye'. It's about 'keep around and help some more' and so on.
This isn't high school 50th year reunion. It's every day living.
Sometimes getting older means getting wiser. The humanities describe wisdom with some degree of humility, integrity, morality, empathy, etc. ( mostly virtues, instead of vices ). In a very competitive world it's really hard to love thy neighbor while bidding for jobs against local ( or even not local ) competitors. Things get critical when dealing with income stream and monthly nuts to crack.
Luckily, Craig, you flourished at first, and then survived the revolution of computers and cameras and editing ( and conglomeration of ad agencies ), -- so that pro people with studios and equipment (competing with kids new on the scene shooting prosumer ) was a part of your later career, and you got out with a relatively intact income stream and mobility to get close to retirement comfortably.
In a way you had to keep up with new tech, and adjust to knowing it ( learning it because nobody knew what could be done until the pioneers arrived to work out the kinks, etc. ). This forum did well to help that happen, with your contributions being very important and useful. You knew the workflow and export for certain projects and made it work for you, and helped others solve problems via this forum and probably other ways outside of this forum.
Some people know the differences between being hired as a DP and being in the pro flow of work, vs. the home computer NLE world of doing personal projects ( leading unbelievably into pro projects to some extent in the past 15 years ).
Anyway, if you have the boxed version of CS6 and win 10, photoshop, PPro, audition, and encore work OK. After effects NG on mine.
So maybe you can still use photoshop at least... which would be my personal biggest lament, re: giving up all Adobe stuff.
I don't care about the rest.. as i'm using Resolve now, and never let Adobe into my pocket with CC.
I personally feel you should get a 'free' CC subscription ( like ACP members ) for the equiv. of creative suite master edition... whether you contribute to this forum or not.
Which brings up the point... you can still help people even if you aren't actively using the product now.
Hope you are still shooting something to stay creative and happy inside... regardless of money making.... or just happy with how you've moved on.
( this is my latest test of a new bmpcc thing shot in an the 'affordable housing' place I now live in MN. …)
Must keep doing something … not for money, but just to keep doing something.
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