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<\/a>By Jim Bona<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n(Hamilton, NY \u2013 Dec. 2014) Since retiring, I have been spending my days at home, which is wonderful.\u00a0 Answering the myriad questions: mostly “what do you do????” is always fun. I get creative and invent all kinds of answers. (I have realized that many people tend to see a person by what their job is.\u00a0 The equation: “no job = no worth” is widely prevalent. Is there a prejudice that not having a job means you are not productive)?<\/p>\n
I guess when you don\u2019t have a job people think, for some strange reason, you have nothing to do.\u00a0 Even though I am not at work anymore, I am still working; just not working for The Man.\u00a0 And not getting paid for it, either. There is plenty to do and that’s the problem.<\/p>\n
Whatever it is that I am working on it is usually expending some type of energy.\u00a0 It could be electrical current, water of both the hot and cold varieties, and even some propane gas. (No television for me, thank you very much). In the words of Carlos Santana’s song, “Evil Ways,” my house is dark and my pots are cold.\u00a0 NOT!\u00a0 Instead of using the job’s electricity, heat, and water, I am home, using my own\u2026and paying for it.\u00a0 (That is another aspect of retirement that I am realizing:\u00a0 there is plenty of time to spend money, which is not good).<\/p>\n
The quest for lower power consumption is ever present in my mind.\u00a0 It is going to be tough to keep to pre-retirement levels, but it is a challenge that I have accepted.\u00a0 Being home to throw wood on the fire all day is going to result in a warmer house, but will also result in more wood being burned.\u00a0 I am going to have to understand that there is a higher level of consumption being home all the time.\u00a0 Maybe I have to get out more.\u00a0 Either that, or sit around and do more of nothing.<\/p>\n
Jim Bona is recently retired and a resident of the village of Hamilton for more than 30 years.\u00a0\u00a0 He is passionate about all things green\u2026and a few other things too. He can be reached at: madnews@m3pmedia.com.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Going Green By Jim Bona (Hamilton, NY \u2013 Dec. 2014) Since retiring, I have been spending my days at home, which is wonderful.\u00a0 Answering the myriad questions: mostly “what do you do????” is always fun. I get creative and invent all kinds of answers. (I have realized that many people tend to see a person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}