Category Archives: After Retirement…Work Some More

The Couple Retired, Started Volunteering, Gained that Sense of Achievement in Their Lives

Found the meanings of their lives, in, giving back to their, community here!  Off of the Newspapers, translated… The eighty-four-year-old Chen, along with his wife, the eighty-one-year-old Chen-Hsiao, worked in the car parts manufacturing industries, after their over thirty years … Continue reading

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The Ups & Downs of Volunteer as a Crossing Guard

Giving back to your community, after you’d, retired, you’d found, that brand new, purpose in your, life here, translated… When we’re, out, whether it be at the important ramps, or the regular streets, we can see those, voluntary traffic guards … Continue reading

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On the Separation Anxieties for the Parents, on Parenthood

The “onset” of retirement, that brought along, the empty nest, in midlife, translated… Our summers this year got shortened by two weeks, and suddenly, it’s the season when the schools started back up again.  I worked in the elementary years … Continue reading

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In the Bottom Half of Life: She’d Quit Her Job to Care for Her Ailing Father, Started in Volunteering, Helping Others as Well as Herself Too

Staying ACTIVE, after retirement, this woman found her new purpose after retirement, in volunteering to help others, from the Newspapers, translated… The fifty-seven year-old Hsu, in order to care for her father who had a stroke thirteen years ago, she’d, … Continue reading

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Learning Before Retirement

Learning the brand new skill set prior to your retirement, that should be, truly, difficult, especially when you’d been the one, barking at your subordinates from before, now, the shoe’s, on the other foot!  Translated… After a Week-Long Training of … Continue reading

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To Begin Again, Finding Work After Retirement

Finding work again after your retirement, surely, there would be, bumps, but, you’d, found a job that fitted to your interests the best, translated… After I retired, there was a very long period of time I’d lived on, leisurely, I’d … Continue reading

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The Pressures of Life from After the Retirement

As empty nest H-I-T-S, retirement makes you even busier, translated… People told me, that after they retired, they got to sleep until they wake in the morn, so, how come, I’d had a ton of things troubling me regularly, and, … Continue reading

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Surprises, at the Turns of the Corners of Our Lives, on the Movie: Retired, But Still Active

What the movie had, shown us, that we may need, after our retirements, what this person gained, after watching this movie, translated… There are the four stages of life that everybody goes through in life, “birth, aging, illness, death”, no … Continue reading

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My Dad’s Recital

Picking up a hobby, is especially important, now that you’re, retired, it gives you something else you can do, to focus your energies on! Translated… I’d started worrying, a few short months back after learning that my father was about … Continue reading

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A New Classmate in Our Planters Community

Things we can occupy ourselves with after we retired, having the chances, of interacting with others with whom we had nothing in common with from before, broadening up our own horizons in life, translated… There was that male classmate who’s … Continue reading

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