Being retired and self employed has many benefits for me.  Where I work in contract has me meet many travelers who vacation on my island home.   I tend the grounds of a hotel and the center point is a inner garden that is beautiful...with bridges and pools and plants and trees and ...me.  Today some visitors passed thru the garden on they way to the shoreline to see the ocean and we shared "Alohas".  After a short time they returned and stopped.  The wife had a large stem which had falled from the tree and wanted to know what it was and so I pass on what to me is so usual and she found out what it was.   Her husband asked me if "this is what you do"? and I said yes..."I am a retured person who refuses to stay home idle".  "What did you retire from", she asked.  "I'm former US Navy and NASA and a builder/designer and realtor and mortgage loan officer and pilot and several other careers also".   Her hosband listened and then said, "You must really enjoy life huh"? which cause me to think before answering him which was, "What else could I do with it"? and he laughed and they nodded.   I didn't bring up what else I use to do with it that almost caused me to loose it all.  It seems so unreal now...living on borrowed time and enjoying all of it.