Rewards of Work

If you've been lucky enough to have a successful career, as I feel I did, than work after retirement is a vastly different thing. There is the search for fulfilment and satisfaction as opposed to money, power and prestige. I know that most people don't admit to a career path as money power and prestige, but the reality of American Society requires that the participants do understand that the best of any profession will be those who make the most money, command the most power and garner the most prestige. For those who haven't faced that reality I'm sorry, but CEO and upper management salaries in all reaches of American business and public management haven't gotten to the levels they are by accident.
No, after you retire you can drop the pose and become ... well let's say a Guest Services Representative at a museum of technology and environment, because let me assure you if you do that, you are not looking for money, power or prestige. When you finally downsize your ambitions, you can finally "leave the work at work". There is one small problem. You can't forget what you've learned. When your being supervised by twenty and thirty somethings who are learning on the job, you can see the shortcomings, mistakes and misconceptions. The impulse to want to reach out and grab the wheel is often overwhelming.
I remember a commercial from years ago where a wool clad new Englander states from his frozen snow covered backyard somewhere in in rural bumfuck that "It used to be if you got a yen fer a fresh peach in February, you just laid down and waited until it went away."
Good advice and I probably will take it. But if they could only hear themselves?