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Congratulations! ..... I think(?) -- Not many people have the health, stamina or slightest desire to spend 54 years of their life working at a job. Even if you started at 15, that still means working until you are 69! I hope you are healthy enough ... and have enough non-work interests --- to now enjoy a well-deserved retirement. (I retired 5-years ago at 61 after working since I was about 15, but, that's still 'only; 42-46 years (part-fulltime). I've enjoyed a healthy, active retirement so much, that I can't imagine still working now ... or for another 7-10 years!)
What motivated you to do it? Did you enjoy working that much ... or were you forced to do so by financial or other considerations?
Congratulations and a salute from a fellow vet. One thing you're soon to discover about retirement, for some reason you never get a day off!
Thanks.
I hear you on the "no day off" phenomenon. Especially with two grandchildren, and one more on the way -- actually, any day now.
After getting back to the USA, one thing I'm looking forward to is my old Army outfit's reunion in Branson this summer. (Just noticed your location; that brought it to mind).
What motivated you to do it? Did you enjoy working that much ... or were you forced to do so by financial or other considerations?
Why does anyone work? Feeding and clothing my family and keeping a roof over our heads. Traveling when we wanted to where we wanted to. Putting two sons through college. Medical bills. Orthodontics. Surgeries. Feeling responsible to my employees and the institution I gave 27 years to, before being ignominiously given the boot out the door without so much as a "thank-you", and having to scramble to find a job at age 63. The usual.
I hear you on the "no day off" phenomenon. Especially with two grandchildren, and one more on the way -- actually, any day now.
After getting back to the USA, one thing I'm looking forward to is my old Army outfit's reunion in Branson this summer. (Just noticed your location; that brought it to mind).
My old unit meets there every year. Half of them seem to be from Arkansas.
A lot of Texans among my group of infantry grunts. Nice guys, though. They even forgive me for my Jersey upbringing.
Not sure my fellow grunts totally gave me a pass on my California nativity. Geat group of guys, though. At least they didn't frag me (I was the platoo leader).
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