Retirement???
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:12 pm
I do so envy the standard "Grandad" that you see on the TV adverts with their knitted cardigans and mint candy in the pocket for the grandchildren, I have never stopped working yet!! I have "Retired about 5 times from different jobs but soon get the urge to DO something apart from sitting in front of the old Aviosaurus, I have about 10 weddings booked for this year, ( 9 more than I want!) and I have just signed up for four days a week working at the local Theme Park called "Thorpe Park" one of the biggest in the country! I am driving the little train that goes around the park! (Yeh, I get paid for it as well!!) I have also trained on "Tidal wave" loggers leap, and a roller coaster call "Flying Fish"!!
I am the oldest employee on the Park! and I love it, Its like a stage to me, I can do all my old jokes and asides to a captive audience, and I had THREE commendations from the public saying how much they enjoyed the "Old Chap" and his humour...Fame at last. But it has taken its toll...I feel Knackered (do you say that in USA?) I am seventy in about 5 weeks
and as happy as a sandboy...I may retire again at the end of the season, then its Father Xmas time again! and so on and so on.. Beachy
I am the oldest employee on the Park! and I love it, Its like a stage to me, I can do all my old jokes and asides to a captive audience, and I had THREE commendations from the public saying how much they enjoyed the "Old Chap" and his humour...Fame at last. But it has taken its toll...I feel Knackered (do you say that in USA?) I am seventy in about 5 weeks
and as happy as a sandboy...I may retire again at the end of the season, then its Father Xmas time again! and so on and so on.. Beachy