Retirement Ain't for Me

In principle I never liked the idea of #retirement anyway. You just stop contributing to your own family, the local economy, etc, and become idle. I can understand reducing a workload that has become too heavy, maybe going part-time and making up the difference with #pension money. I kinda did that when I quit my 14-hours-a-day 70-hour-per-week job that paid less than I take home in my pension now. Family and physician both said I was literally working myself to death. Okay, so I "retired."

I used the time to finish school, get through presbytery exams and get ordained to the ministry, a lifelong hope of mine. It matters much more since I'm chaplain for the whole battalion now (that's the reenacting stuff I do, the War Between the States). I consider that work at #living-history events to be a vital ministry, and it certainly has borne fruit already. In September, we'll reenact the battle at Chickamauga, Thousands of reenactors will be there and it will be awesome times ten to the zillionth power.

In the meantime, though, it's back to #work for this ol' boy. Even with all the studying and "chaplain stuff," there's too much idle time and too little money for the expenses of the living history stuff. So tomorrow I'm back at work, 40 hours a week instead of 70, 8-hour days instead of 14. In the familiar surroundings of an airport (a very small one this time) and doing work I enjoy. Life is good.