My First Post – My First Day of “Retirement”
I’m not really a “journaling” kind of guy, but for this post only, I’ll keep it in the first person. Today the 2009-2010 school year started without me. After 35 years of gainful employment (mostly gainful), I have joined the great baby boomer mass of retirees.
The two complaints I have so far are as follows: Everybody wants to know what my plans are (translation: you should have plans); and all the women keep telling my wife how wonderful it will be that she can come home to a clean house and a fully-prepared meal (translation: obviously that’s what he’ll be doing). My answer: yeah right! I told one hopeful house-husband recruiter that I was retiring FROM not retiring TO.
Yesterday, a doctor told me not to do heavy lifting. I, of course, overgeneralized to “not allowed to do housework.” He “helped” me out by telling my wife all the chores that I could do.
I plan to let those things evolve…….. (or devolve)
Those of you who think critically know I have technically been retired since June. This is the first day of NOT working, however. I’ve had two cups of coffee, received text messages from colleagues left behind (jealous), sent one grownup son to work, about ready to send off another, and …. I’m exhausted. Well, naps are an essential part of retirement, too.
No, this will not be a personal diary blog; no lists of cool things I’m doing, no cooking (or cooking through anybody’s cookbook), no recipes, no telling you the lessons I learned by watching the two dogs living in our house, no avuncular philosophizing (I think), and (definitely) minimal use of the first person pronoun I.
What will this be? I plan to let things evolve……..
I can tell you that I (two I’s already) have “discovered” that the area of study I thought was the most irrelevant, is probably a driving force in our world. That would be, broadly defined, philosophy, theology, apologetics, and other theoretical realm thinking.
Joe Johnston Sr.
Tags: apologetics, education, philosophy, teaching, theology
Filed under: Retirement Rants
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