Yes. Still. That was the answer to his amazed response that, at seventy-nine, I was still working. My Pulmonologist is a great guy to talk to, and I kind of enjoyed surprising him with this nugget of information. Currently, I work as a station manager for a small Access Television organization. They call me the executive director, but I insist that now that I am part-time, I have little time for being executive and have to spend my time keeping the business running. There is no time for the annoying game of filling organizational slots on a table of organization.
In addition to this employment, I am still carver in chief of my small marine carving studio. About my continued work activities, I fall in line with a longer line of Carreras’, who just kept at it. If you are capable, willing, and interested, age can be just a number. Then, too, there can be a need. Income is nice when you need to buy stuff.
Now, this gig in television is only one of the ways I transformed myself for the world of work. I’ve been a folk performer, surgical technician, anthropologist, Teamster, UPS supervisor, Government program director, and lots of other things. Need, as well as opportunity and interests, have driven career directions. I am sure that many of you reading this are nodding your head. You do what you have to do to keep your head above water.
Career expectations? I don’t know. Next year, when I turn eighty, I might consider a new frolicing detour into other types of employment. Raconteur? Philosopher king? Maybe bull shit artist extraordinaire?
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Your AI graphic is delightful on this one!! And good for you, still working! You are making your life what you want it to be.
Crystal….I’d be terribly bored otherwise.
I figure my new career was the one I was designed for in the first place. Someone emailed and said she was coming to Colorado — the three major cities — and wanted to know where she could find my work. I was like, “Huh? In my house…” which I told her. It would be nice to have gallery space, but where?
I understand. Most of the Marine Galleries are marine flat art or models. I don’t easily fit into a popular category.