Just passed my 79 birthday. I remember when I was a kid* trying to imagine what this age (near 80) would be like. 80 year olds were kinda rare back then. * Probably in the mid 1950’s
Don’t have to imagine. Now I can live it. That’s better than the alternative and I am happy I can say that. There is still a path ahead, so my plan is to keep following it as long as I am able.
Now fully retired from vocational income production, I spend all my time on the avocational side to life. Enjoying whatever I like with no concern that I must produce a life sustaining income from what it is I am doing. I don’t think I fully understood that future as a youngster.
I actually enjoyed my several flavors of chosen vocations and it was never a desire to retire from what I was doing “for a living.” Ha! To me my life’s work was never “just a job” I totally looked forward to each and every day.
My last vocational employer decided (several years after standard retirement age) that “older employees” were a possible financial health cost risk. That’s how it is with big non-personal corporations. It’s all bottom line. So I was gently permitted with adequate notice to switch to my purely avocational interests full time.
It was a good move. Sad to leave my professional position, but I soon adjusted to being totally my own boss again. I have held that “own boss” position (or a “flavor” of it) many times in my career(s).
Spouse Gloria, may make exception for my total boss claim. We have been legal partners for 57 years, so we share decisions at home.
Gloria still has a church pianist (paying) position and piano students, so she is technically not 100% retired. Since neither “jobs” require all her time, she has a lot of hobby time for sewing quilts. Quilting folks are a whole n’other culture of their own. Fun times for her!
My Hobbies are electronically technical. Ham radio, computers, and machines controlled by computers. Also workshop detailed crafting work like lost-wax metal casting, machine tools metal work, and heavy into 3D plastic printing.
Also a lot of Internet web blogging (like this one) about all my hobby activities, Is a hobby itself.
I “put up” many blogs and internet sites “Just because I can.” It’s a technical challenge. Actually, not all that hard these days. My original web sites were all written in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) Almost like computer programming with DOS in the early days. Now it’s Structured Query Language (SQL) and use of attached data base systems.
WordPress, Joomla, Drupal are examples of packaged blogging software systems. All Independent Service Providers (ISP) provide necessary hardware and software and help. An ISP provides access to the internet for a service charge.
Well, that’s how I got to posting this. A creative exercise. Just blabbing (or it’s called “blogging”. CUL ~ Dan
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