On the lookout for the "encore thing"
In response to this question: “how has your view of how you want to spend time? How has that changed in the last 10 years or so?” a friend told me this:
I was all driven about family, security forever. You know, being the breadwinner - that was the thing, right? Must be successful. Must get the kids through college. And those might be just as important, but they're in the rear view mirror. Now those aren't my concern, right?
I think, okay, those things are done. So what's the purpose now? And I don't know. I've got purpose at work. I get satisfaction in terms of work and a few things like that. But, you know, I'm kind of on the lookout a little bit, where I want to, you know, what's going to be the - I don't want to say “the encore thing.”
But, you know, I'm probably at my last “working for somebody else” job, unless I screw up something now, and it's not looking like that's what's gonna happen, right? So that's really what's changed now: there's a lot more in my field of view that I can take interest in.
And I've dabbled here and there on the house, gotta finish setting up this pool house. That's kind of the busy work. You know, a little bit of design, certainly some satisfaction to learn some new stuff, but I'm wondering what the purpose is going to be [going forward].