Happiness and doing what you love in life.

[Dreadbelly]

Since I took early retirement three years ago from being manager of our local Town Hall here I've enjoyed living the dream of getting involved in aviation, which was my late father's career. I'm a part-time volunteer at an aviation museum and also hold a private pilot's licence. I keep the cost of my flying down by mucking in at the flying school helping get planes in and out of the hangar and taxi-ing them to and from the fuel bowser for refuelling. Of course all this costs money. While my pension pays for life's essentials, I've set up my own part-time law practice (I qualified as a lawyer in 1975 but then made my career in public admin.) to pay for luxuries like flying and kilts. Like you, Dread, I find working for myself is very fulfilling and since I left a highly stressful Town Hall job I've kicked the booze and much healthier for it.

So getting away from the rat race took away the stress which made you unhappy enough to self medicate. Interesting.

Don't mind me, just thinking outloud.

[Kilted KT]

So getting away from the rat race took away the stress which made you unhappy enough to self medicate. Interesting.

Don't mind me, just thinking outloud.

I do believe you've identified the reason why happy hour is such a popular event, even though it is little more than everyone trying to escape the nightmare of a job they have if only for a few minutes. I'm pretty sure millions of people wouldn't be getting obliterated daily if they didn't have so much stress and BS in their lives.