Originally Posted by
knbaudio
retirement what that !!! I've worked manual labor all my life and ended in the marina industry for over 28 years. just making enough to pay bill and raise 2 kids now my wife's job dropped all spouses from insurance. so I would love to just drop everything and do what I love and make a living at it, but I live in a town that is slowing closing down. so I work hard in everything I do and hopefully one day get paid for a career in what I love to do and less stress than one that can kill me everyday now.
We came awful close to starting a marina in Florida decades ago. The last straw in the scheme was that my mother had older relatives in Illinois, and did not want to move.
My younger brother was a decent mechanic, and loved outboards. I was an ex-Navy electronics tech, and specialized in radar and communications, with sidelines in sonar and loran,
and had worked as a mechanic and rebuilder. We all liked boats, and had owned or operated them for quite some time.
My father, who hatched the scheme, had been trying to get my mother to move to Florida since the 1950's.
He even had the state of Florida offer a very well paying position, and an appropriate location was available.
Eventually, the older relatives died off, and by that time, my father retired, and finally moved to Florida,
I was overseas as a tech rep for military aircraft electronics, and my brother was working for Allis Chalmers.
At the end, the opportunities had been taken by others, my brother had died suddenly, and my fathers health was failing.