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Message: [QUOTE="huskeynut, post: 5029769, member: 750"] Retirement doesn't mean you don't have a purpose. It gives you time to explore things you wanted to do but never had the time. I retired earlier than most. After 33 years in education that inner voice told me it was time. No regrets at all. Our family was growing with grandchildren and Poppa was available to baby sit and I sure did. The wife was still working so I had the opportunity to expand my cooking skills. And I was still heavily involved with the Scouting program. When my wife finally retired, we decided to ditch the Northeast with its winter weather and high taxes. Moved to Florida in a 55+ community. It was a 2 year process to sell the house and find a place to live. When we finally settled in, we both found an unbelievable amount of clubs and activities. I joined a swing band and started playing again. Hadn't really played in a band since my mid 20's. Had to work my tail off to get in decent playing condition. I'm still playing 8 years later with the same group playing 5 concerts/ dances a year. Some of our best friends are in the band. Found we had a neighborhood club that had 3 events per year. We both joined our Community Emergency Response Team. We both believe that giving back to your community is important. We went to the training. We train for natural disasters as being immediate responders for our community. Then we became trainers/ presenters for Check-Call-Compress classes. This past August I became the Team Leader. Our community sponsored a university and offered course to the community. My wife signed up to teacher a variety of courses for using software with the emphasis on Apple products. COVID killed that one. Plus she became a church organist/ choir director for a local church. She just retired from that one. In addition we have about one concert in our ballroom every month. We get some of the original artists like Gary Puckett and Jay and the Americans and the Classics IV as well as some very good tribute bands. Plenty out there to do. [/QUOTE]

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