Retirement
“So its for sure now, I will retire.” I have been waiting 33 years of my life to say that. The only ones that can relate are those that have experienced or will experience the same thing. I am learning that the hard way. I know my wife doesn’t understand. She never had the experience of showing up for the same job for 33 years. This was mostly by design as our transient life never allowed her the consistency of a career. For 33 years I have had to be responsible to something other than myself and my family. I have had to follow the government’s rules. I have had to live my life around the demands of another. For some people their career becomes their identity. They are their job. It is a function so intertwined with day to day existence that when the link is broke their life loses meaning. I am not one of those people. I am grateful for my career. For the places it has taken me and the life it has given me. I am also grateful to leave my desk and computer b