It is?? Well, Vocational Service doesn’t apply to me anymore; I’m retired!
You are? Well, look around you: a fair percentage of our club's members are “retired”. I use the inverted commas deliberately. Many are retired, but are as active as ever! At random, take a couple of retirees of our membership list: Ross Augustine: full bore into his new vocation of our club's Fundraising Director, a far cry from his former profession as a Pharmacist. Geoff Croad: probably busier now with running the Wheelchair Project than he was as a Real Estate Agent, when matchmaking prospective house sellers and buyers. There are several others, and we are all equally wondering how the hell we ever had time to go to work!
Several of our members have retired in the last 12 months or so, and do they ever deserve to “take a month of Sundays” to pursue activities that they never had time for when running a business. But, the overriding motto of Rotary is Service Above Self, and the part that specifically relates to Vocational Service is the Declaration of Rotarians in Business and Professions. Might not be a bad idea to refresh your memory. Click on the link and read it, and if you are retired, particularly pay attention to item No 6. You might even want to download it!
