Too Many RCS Members Have All The Answers?

At the ripe old age of 64, I'm figuring out how much I don't know . . .

Coming up on seventy and still wearing tools.  It's the only part of the job I really like.  There are stronger roofing companies out there, by far, but nobody else can field a tradesman at the point of contact with as much love of the craft and as much experience.  Since I have this edge and have never been greedy, it means that I can have just about any job I set my sights on.

My daughters have told me if I don't quit after this year they're taking my keys away.  They have me asking myself this question: Should I keep doing this just because I still can?  I've been blessed with miraculous stamina.  But numbers don't lie.  How many years are there left and how many of those with good health?  Are there other activities where my time could be spent more productively?  What's in the bucket list?  Good questions for which I have only incomplete answers.

This year is already booked.  I've got a lot of thinking to do and not a lot of time to do it in.  Maybe I should have some spare keys made?  Maybe I should consult the oracle?  Which one?  I was reading the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time recently, the battle for Troy.  "The pitiless bronze."  "He fell with a thud and his armor rattled upon him."  Some things never change.

Hello Egg,

I would get at least one set of  keys made. Maybe even a truck parked down the street somewhere.

I have always watched and admired the guys who were working way past retirement.  I used to be the second guy at the supply house. The first guy worked up till he died at 84. He did  not install till the end, but he sold every job. Got the guys started and brought materials to the job. Also had rental properties which is what kill him. The guy who cut his grass was late to the one property. So he loaded his lawn mower and went to mow the grass. He fell unloading the lawn mower off his truck. Broke his hip.  They sent him to therapy. He just decide that was it. Did not do any and died 2 days later.

I am not roofing everyday.  Buying rental properties and getting them ready to rent. I have only bought vacant properties so far. Did a couple of roofs last year. At 62 my wife still wants to know why I am sitting around. Don't you have any work to do. LOL

lol.  A stealth roofer truck.  Black with a lot of strange angles and surfaces to fool radar into thinking it's a flock of birds.  Kind of cross between a standard truck and a batmobile.  Can do.