The title above sounds like an oxymoron. But many of my friends are doing inspiring things in retirement. I asked one the other evening about her volunteer work. She's a lovely, quiet, unassuming lady.
She started her career as a teacher. When she and her husband discovered that their daughter was deaf she went back to school for a degree in speech pathology and audiology and then spent the rest of her career in the public school system.
When she retired she did volunteer work in the hospital's thrift shop until it closed. Then what? Would she twiddle her thumbs?
She's at the hospital giving hearing tests to new born babies, some of them tiny preemies. We have the technology for this now. Wow.
Naturally, she needed many months of additional training for this volunteer job. I'm constantly amazed at what my friends are doing in retirement. What would we do without them?
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