Senior Pen Pal: Dave in NH
by Dave
(NH)
Hi - I am a newly retired 55 yo schoolteacher up in the North Country. My wife still lives in MA as she still works.
She watches one house along with her parents and I watch the other. Our son graduated high school and moved off to college.
Basically, I couldn't take Massachusetts anymore AND I ran out of names to call it.
I enjoy my time up on my little dirt road, living on land on a ledge; but money is tight (rather be low on funds than work anymore -- disgusted with being somebody's slave).
I worked at a job that I couldn't stand within the first week of being otj. However, family comes first so I made it through 20 years.
Schoolteaching is tough - especially when you are as conservative as I am. Just couldn't take the liberal mentality anymore - and even then I made it through a few more years.
I think the icing on the cake was the Obama cutout greeting people at the school entrance.
That did it for me.
