My First Few Days of Retirement

Jim LaBate
4 min readJun 6, 2020
Photo by Max Harlynking on Unsplash

Today is my third day of retirement, and I am thoroughly enjoying it so far. Prior to my last day at work, people would always ask me, “What are you going to do?”

My standard answer was, and still is, “more reading and more writing,” and I have done so thus far. I have always enjoyed those two activities early in the morning, but now that I don’t have to rush off to work each day, I can leisurely spend more…

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Jim LaBate

Jim LaBate is a writer and teacher who assists in The Writing Center at Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy, New York.