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Show u. J , i . by Marcella Walker July 2010 is the time when both of my brothers are retiring. One retired on July 2 after working work-ing for the IRS and the other is retiring on July 26 after working for the UTA for about 30 years. One is 72 and the other is 69. I don't know. Is this a trend? Both of these guys were eligible to retire some time ago but they continued working for one reason rea-son or another. Look at the U.S. Senators and Representatives. How many of them are over 65? Quite a bunch, it would seem. Some keep going into their nineties. There are presidents of corporations corpora-tions who are very old but are still going. Most of these people are not doing it for the moqey. Some are doing it to have something to do because they have always worked and don't know anything any-thing else. Others like the idea of getting up and going to work and accomplishing something they like to do. Some do it for the money as their retirement check is not too great. There are probably lots of reasons. I retired because I had other oth-er things I wanted to do and I could not do them and work, too. When I began to have children, chil-dren, I never worked full time. I worked part time as a reporter for Pleasant Grove and Lindon for the Daily Herald and later I was city editor for the Pleasant Grove Review and sometimes I felt like I worked full time. I worked for the city part time for several years and was still writing for the Review but my children were grown and there was no reason to stay home when I could be doing some things which I .enjoyed. Writing is one thing I have always enjoyed. In high school I was on the newspaper staff and I took journalism classes as well as creative writing classes. At Weber State I vas on the news paper staff and the yearbook staff. At BYU I was on the Universe Uni-verse Staff and after I graduated I worked full time in the BYU News Bureau. Incidently, when I was in ' high school I took Latin. Some say Latin is a dead language but when you consider that most of the words in the romance languages, such as English, French, and Spanish, are all derivations der-ivations of Latin, then it is not really dead, is it? However, I will point out that writing for newspapers, although great fun and it keeps you up-to-date on what is going on, it is not going to make you a millionaire. It is one of the lower low-er paying full time jobs but it gets in your blood and you love doing it whether it pays well or not. One of the nice side effects of being a newswriter is that people peo-ple come and ask you questions about how to write different kinds of things and it is fun to help them out and I enjoy that. One of my granddaughters, who writes the column just below be-low mine in Timpanogos Times, is turning out to be a very good writer and I am very happy she is enjoying writing. I do, too. Although I thought I was retired until the Timpa- "BLAB " Continued on page 3 "BLAB" Continued from page 3 nogos Times came to be, I still enjoy writing. I still enjoy going go-ing to city council meetings, and though my hearing is not as good as it should be, I have found that it is a place to learn a lot about the city. Anyway, I began this article to talk about retiring. I retired, served two LDS missions, and I am now back writing again. I love it! |