When you are in your fifties you still have time, but no time to waste. Alec Baldwin
August 31st was my last day at work. I retired after nearly thirty-seven years at UPS after just turning fifty-five. I started there in 1974 as a loader and in 1978 I became a delivery driver. I started delivering in Avon Lake, then East Lorain and finally Sheffield Lake where I delivered for over thirty years. I have hundreds of stories from my career and plan to share them here. I’ve met so many kind and interesting people. I’m very lucky because I have a really good memory and I write things down.
I’ve taken a few weeks to transition into retirement. Been playing a lot of banjo, working on old fiddle tunes and trying to figure out exactly where I plan to go. Things are becoming clearer.
I do a lot of things and I want to become the best at all the things I do. I want to become a really good poker player, competent musician (guitar, banjo, dulcimer, ukulele and harmonica). get my master’s rating in chess, get my writing published and so much more.
Being raised by an agoraphobic created an odd anxiety about travelling. I found it ironic that I didn’t go more than a couple blocks from my house growing up and then as a UPS driver I was locked into a route three miles wide by a half mile deep. I want to see the world and meet everyone. I want to bicycle the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, I want to visit South Africa and see my beloved lithops in their native soil.
Essentially I want to become the person that I’ve always known that I wanted to be. I no longer have any excuses.
ha! you have always been the person you knew you wanted to be…just in embryo. Go for it all..