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Parkinson’ s UK Needs Volunteers
Can you spare some time for a very worthwhile and deserving charity? If your answer is yes, then please read the article below that has been given to us by one of our retired members, Philip Thompson, who is the Chair to the Barnsley and District Branch of Parkinson’ s UK. Even if your answer is no, it is still worth a read as you may know of someone who can help.
A word to those of you who have recently retired- How are you finding retirement; alternatively, are you looking forward to the prospect with joy unconfined? With life expectancies continually increasing you have to anticipate that you will spend almost as much time being retired as you did working. This prospect brings with it both challenges and opportunities. In this respect I can speak with some authority in that I have now been retired for some 23 years.
You will no longer have the comradeship and the company which the work place offers, the satisfaction from exercising one’ s skills and in many occupations in the public sector, meeting the challenges of an extremely difficult financial environment.
The leisure activities which one looks forward to pursuing in retirement can quickly begin to become routine and lose something of their attraction. For instance, there are just so many games of golf one can play, day in and day out, before one feels the need for something different. One’ s walking group probably meets only once a week which leaves 6 days for alternative activities. One could go on and make retirement sound like the waiting room for purgatory but of course it isn’ t, or shouldn’ t be, like that. You can take my word for it; I wished I’ d retired 40 not 23 years ago but couldn’ t afford it at the time.
My solution was simply to carry on working, without getting paid for it, at my own pace and doing work of my own choosing. In other words I volunteered and I have to tell you that there are literally hundreds of organisations out there, offering a bewildering variety of jobs, ready to snatch your hand off in exchange for some of your time and the use of your skills and expertise.
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