training for retirement

[Avery Todd]

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Kurt,

First, there's quite a bit of difference in not "having" to work and not
"wanting" to work. I enjoy what I do, so I'll probably continue to do it
for as long as I am able to do it WELL! If I ever get to the point where
I can't and don't realize it, I hope a good customer will have the guts
to tell me!

I don't know if this will mean anything or not but I'm now 64 years old and
will be retiring (from a university) in a few years. As long as I'm physically
able, I'll continue to service some good customers I've built up over the
years but I won't actively recruit new business. I "hope" I don't have to. :-)

Thankfully, I'm now in a position where I can sort of pick and choose what
pianos I want to work on. I've done my time with the "beaters, etc." and
will refer them to someone who's trying to make a living being self-employed,
as I was for well over 20 yrs. (Made a good bit of money replacing "plastic"
elbows!) :-)

Anyway, there won't be a lot of time involved, plus I do some dealer work in
a city close to Houston, so I figure that will be all I'll want to do. But at
least it'll keep me active and I won't sit in a bar or something and 
vegetate! :-)
And hopefully, I'll have a shop to do action work and maybe an occasional
restringing job. Try to keep a little money coming in besides the 
retirement and
SS. :-)

Good luck.

Avery

At 08:22 AM 1/14/04, you wrote:
>I'm in training for retirement and I thought I'd open the topic up 
>here.  I've been sorta successful with it although I still tend to get 
>lost in meaningless work, such as hobbies that take up lotsa time.  I 
>might even step out and do a piano tuning job even though I'm not supposed 
>to at my age.  Sometimes I just schooze around and goof off.
>I guess the point is, once a person doesn't have to work anymore it's just 
>slightly more difficult to find meaning in daily life.  Or reward, or 
>significance.  How is this regulated?
>
>Kurt Eichenbach
>
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