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(#2) A Retired Aerospace Engineer Lives Life as a Rockstar
Everyone dreams of being a rockstar. And really, what better way is there for an 82-year-old retired aerospace engineer to spend their time off? Wait, what? John Hetlinger is seriously the coolest heavy-metal grandpa. He made it to the "Judge Cuts" round on Season 11 of America's Got Talent, performing both Drowning Pool's "Bodies" and Rob Zombie's "Dragula". Even though he was eventually cut from the show's cast, he still gets to perform live on stage with Drowning Pool at some of their festivals.
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(#7) First Person to Circumnavigate the World in a Hot Air Balloon
While working as a Stock Broker, Steven Fossett still had a thirst for adventure. As he slipped into retirement, he had more time to quench that thirst and began his attempts at conquering one of the remaining things yet to be accomplished by man, traveling the world alone, nonstop, in a hot air balloon. After five failed attempts, he finally accomplished that goal in 2002 in a ten story high balloon, Spirit of Freedom, earning him a spot in The National Aviation Hall of Fame.
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(#12) Retired Contractor Settles into Slab City and Operates its Infamous Outdoor Music Venue
William Ammon, aka Builder Bill, is a retired construction worker who now runs "The Range" - Slab City's outdoor music venue. He faced unemployment 17 years ago when his field's job market ran dry, so he moved on to California's Slab City, where he now rocks out with the residents during the venue's weekly outdoor music concerts under the stars.
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(#1) Disco Sally: The Retired Laywer and Disco Queen of NYC Nightlife
Whoever thought getting old was boring must not have heard of Sally Lippmann. Lippmann was a retired lawyer who earned her fame as "Disco Sally" from her moves on the dance floor of New York City's Studio 54. After her husband's death, the 77-year-old, ex-lawyer lived up the rest of her life in style, becoming the cougar of disco in new York in the late '70s. Lippmann even had plans on traveling to Hollywood to make a movie about her wild life.
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(#6) Quit His Job at 25 and Sailed to Chili in Hurricane Season
Dwyer Haney, a 25 year old, gave up his day job and sold all of his belongings to sail to to the fjords of Chile in a 30-foot-long sail boat, that he affectionately named "Rascal"- in hurricane season, where he almost lost both his boat and his friend. He kept a blog full of pictures and journals of his epic voyage from Bellingham, Washington to Chilean Patagonia, and plans to keep finding challenges to conquer throughout the rest of his very early retirement.
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(#14) Right Before His Retirement, This Guy Took Up Painting - Using Spreadsheets
Digital design hardware and software can become expensive, but this retired man found a way around that by creating intricate digital art with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet software. The 73-yearyold artist, Tatsuo Horiuchi, even went above and beyond with his talents, winning the Excel Autoshape Art Contest (yes, that exists) in 2006, and it's not as easy as it seems.
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To be honest, retirement is not a natural part of the human life cycle. Retirement was only a social engineering experiment in the past, aimed at getting older, deemed useless workers to leave their jobs and make room for young people. On the positive side, retirees finally have the opportunity to pursue their dreams. Choose a job that fits your personal values, professional skills, and ideas, and you will get a lasting sense of satisfaction and self-worth.
Each age provides things that you have not been experienced before, you have the opportunity to start your own adventure at any age. You can decide whether life is an adventure or full of trivial matters. The random tool shares 14 stories of people who make their dreams come true after their retirements.
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