Thanks for sharing. I assure you most people at most stages of life are not able to predict what will happen over the next 5-10 years. I once read a book called life in progress, and understood that.
Enjoy your success, do your best, and don’t regret too much. I myself trust in God. 🙏💕❤️
LOL!!!! I found when I turned 60 that I had reached the age at which I knew how my life had come out, and it wasn’t bad! Like you, I worked my butt off from an early age (first job outside the home: picking carnations at a farm in Kula, for 75 cents an hour - some sort of agricultural exemption let them mistreat kids in this way). I was 27, proud holder of a BFA in Theater, and working for 5 bucks an hour painting sets at the Indiana Repertory Theatre in 1987 when I realized that I would never own a home or be able to buy a car if I continued on that trajectory, so I took the LSAT, scored in the 96th percentile, and started law school. Graduated #3 in my class and got a well paid job at a big law firm in Phoenix, saved like a madwoman (except where I had to buy off a useless cheating husband) and retired at 55. Now at 65, in my third career as a pottery teacher, I am finally content and doing something I am good at and love. I learned along the way that an adventure is a story that was terrifying when you lived it but a good laugh for friends years later…
Happy birthday, Geoff! Here’s to hoping you have many more healthy and happy years ahead! 🍻My next b’day (in August) was memorialized by The Beatles, and I’m hoping my husband still needs me and still feeds me when I get there! 😂
Indeed, whenever I am interviewing for a job and the "Where do you see yourself in 5 years" question pops up, I can point to my history and say that I can't predict that.
Happy birthday, G!
Happy Birthday! May this trip around the sun be your best one yet. 💫
Thanks for sharing. I assure you most people at most stages of life are not able to predict what will happen over the next 5-10 years. I once read a book called life in progress, and understood that.
Enjoy your success, do your best, and don’t regret too much. I myself trust in God. 🙏💕❤️
Sorry… It’s Lives in Progress by Robert W. White, psychologist.
Just a thank you for the download. I feel you broseph!
Happy Birthday Geoff!!
Happy birthday and congratulations on starting your seventh decade. May you enjoy most of it.
LOL!!!! I found when I turned 60 that I had reached the age at which I knew how my life had come out, and it wasn’t bad! Like you, I worked my butt off from an early age (first job outside the home: picking carnations at a farm in Kula, for 75 cents an hour - some sort of agricultural exemption let them mistreat kids in this way). I was 27, proud holder of a BFA in Theater, and working for 5 bucks an hour painting sets at the Indiana Repertory Theatre in 1987 when I realized that I would never own a home or be able to buy a car if I continued on that trajectory, so I took the LSAT, scored in the 96th percentile, and started law school. Graduated #3 in my class and got a well paid job at a big law firm in Phoenix, saved like a madwoman (except where I had to buy off a useless cheating husband) and retired at 55. Now at 65, in my third career as a pottery teacher, I am finally content and doing something I am good at and love. I learned along the way that an adventure is a story that was terrifying when you lived it but a good laugh for friends years later…
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Geoff❣️
You are one of my favourites here on Substack.
Happy birthday, Geoff! 🥳🎸🎶 and I wish for you many, many more happy, healthy and blessed years ahead!
Happy birthday, Geoff! Here’s to hoping you have many more healthy and happy years ahead! 🍻My next b’day (in August) was memorialized by The Beatles, and I’m hoping my husband still needs me and still feeds me when I get there! 😂
Happy birthday Geoff!!! One of my all time favorite people I got to work with
Congratulations on packing so much into 6 little decades. Best wishes for a few more, at least. May they go according to your wishes.
This next July I'll be 67. I, too, spent some time around my 60th pondering where I'd been, and where it was all headed. Not on my future BINGO card:
Remarrying
Having a child
Retiring early
Driving from the Pacific Northwest to Southern Quebec with a 2 year old Labrador in the midst of spring blizzards and global pandemic
While I know that planning ahead is necessary at this point in one's life don't forget to consider the adventures that may lie ahead, too.
LOL.
Indeed, whenever I am interviewing for a job and the "Where do you see yourself in 5 years" question pops up, I can point to my history and say that I can't predict that.
Happy birthday 🎉🎂 I'm right behind you, I'll be 60 in July.
Thanks! I had a doctor's appointment and you have to tell the receptionist your date of birth, and she then wished me a happy early birthday.
Happy birthday, Spice! 🥳🎂🎈