Not so sure about this retirement thing...

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I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to do in terms of working at a small second career/part time job after retirement from this one. No real urge to work in retail of any sort, no urge at all to analyze another excel spreadsheet. There's lots of volunteer work available working with critters, which I like, and I'm generally good at, but very little of it pays. I might like to open my own co-operative organic/local food/art shop, but would need capital, and I'm not sure how much risk-taking I want to do at my age.
 
Retirement is boring. I miss teaching, public speaking (I used to do anywhere from 60 to 90 talks a year. But that was in Montreal. Moncton is not a place where people are keen on thinking.) Having a blog helps to keep me sane.
 
Graeme Decarie said:
Retirement is boring. I miss teaching, public speaking (I used to do anywhere from 60 to 90 talks a year. But that was in Montreal. Moncton is not a place where people are keen on thinking.) Having a blog helps to keep me sane.
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Come to Ontario. I could at least get you to speak at one of my church's services. I think your politics would be more in alignment with the mainstream of UU'ism than mine (I'm a bit more centrist than most UUs, who tend to the left).
 
You'd be popular with our Third Age Barrie series, as well. *Come to Ontario* she whispers as seductively as possible...
 
Yes. Both are in university. One is studying political science at Concordia. In fact, one of his papers will soon be published in a history journal. The other is at St. Thomas U. in New Brunswick, and has a part time job as a research assistant for a professor in German history. Both are doing well - far, far better than their father at the BA level. My BA grades were so bad, I didn't even qualify for getting a major.
I also have a daughter just completing high school, and looking forward to studying music at university. It will, I hope, be at Concordia because the children of profs at Con U get free tuition.
It's very expensive to have three children in university.
 
Graeme Decarie said:
Yes. Both are in university. One is studying political science at Concordia. In fact, one of his papers will soon be published in a history journal. The other is at St. Thomas U. in New Brunswick, and has a part time job as a research assistant for a professor in German history. Both are doing well - far, far better than their father at the BA level. My BA grades were so bad, I didn't even qualify for getting a major.
I also have a daughter just completing high school, and looking forward to studying music at university. It will, I hope, be at Concordia because the children of profs at Con U get free tuition.
It's very expensive to have three children in university.
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These days, it's expensive to have one (we're just getting there with Little M) let alone three. My parents managed two but tuition was proportionately lower in Ontario in the eighties and my brother and I had to start taking out OSAP once we both got into university.
 
Thank goodness for OSAP. My parents were farmers with all their assets tied up in land and animals...Not much left to help me with university. But I worked from age 14 and saved like crazy. My own kids also worked and saved, had some from us and some from OSAP.
 
Graeme Decarie said:
Yes. Both are in university. One is studying political science at Concordia. In fact, one of his papers will soon be published in a history journal. The other is at St. Thomas U. in New Brunswick, and has a part time job as a research assistant for a professor in German history. Both are doing well - far, far better than their father at the BA level. My BA grades were so bad, I didn't even qualify for getting a major.
I also have a daughter just completing high school, and looking forward to studying music at university. It will, I hope, be at Concordia because the children of profs at Con U get free tuition.
It's very expensive to have three children in university.
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wow - where did the time go? Seems like just yesterday we were reading about you hauling one of them out of a snowbank!
 
Mendalla said:
Come to Ontario. I could at least get you to speak at one of my church's services. I think your politics would be more in alignment with the mainstream of UU'ism than mine (I'm a bit more centrist than most UUs, who tend to the left).
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Moral peoples don't like old wisdom ... burps and f'artistic stuff just messes them up ... one must follow stringent codes ... stoically! Consider Jae ... a one-tome man ...

He understand little else ... wee IDs?
 
It's so interesting to see our kids discover themselves, spread their wings ... turn into interesting adults.
 
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