What is your career plan? – Ask the Daily Writing prompt.
To hell with the career plan. The 48-year career in newspapers is in the rearview mirror now. I’m on a Mission now, and that is to enjoy retirement and let loose all those creative things I wanted to do when I was a teenager but went to work instead of challenging myself.
Now I get to test myself and I don’t have to starve to do it. My mission is to work each day till my last one on my artistic hobbies. I have no idea how many days I have, just entering my senior years. I have no idea what the effort will amount to but it’s not the end, it’s the journey.
A corner of the basement is my Mission Control. The band of me myself and I get up each day ready to kick ass. It’s a nice commute. The hours are flexible. My boss is cool and into all kinds of management techniques, some I’ve worked for never thought of, or wouldn’t listen to.
Anyway, the plan in short for whatever it is I’m doing.
- Photograph, print, draw, etch, carve, sculpt, write, and paint.
- Create a body of work for my family and friends that would touch them.
- Maybe bring joy to a stranger’s life in some way.
- To use my photography to see the world and the people in it better.
- To go places of interest and enjoy them with my better half while snapping away and learning.
- Have a lot of fun in the MX5 go-cart and lay waste to a few more sets of tires.
It would be neat to put together a body of work that someone might say after I’m gone. “Imagine what he might have done if he spent his lifetime at these pursuits.”
Have a good day all.
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