For the last 20 years of my working career I worked out of my home garage. The toys always saw work time between bill paying work.
When I retired, it was into a completely equipped shop without the interruption of bill paying work. I still put in 40+ hours a week working on my stuff. It was great! The 5 years that followed saw 3 complete builds roll out of the door, but that last build took a lot out of me.
Now that the last one is on the road, I have lost most of the desire to work in the shop. I don't currently have a project, but I also don't currently have a desire to work on one, if I had one. I will occasionally go into the shop to tinker a bit for an hour or two, maybe a day or at most 2 days in a week. It is real easy to come up with poor excuses to not go into the shop. Maybe things will change once winter is over, but the shop is heated, so that remains questionable. I thought I would be joyfully doing this stuff until they dragged my dead body out of the garage.
My entire life has pretty much been about cars. I turned 67 last fall, so its not like I'm really old, and though there are aches & pains, I'm still in pretty good health. I never thought I would ever be in this position, but here I am! For the first time in my life, I have no idea what direction my future is going. Kind of scary, and kind of exciting, in a way.
