Bill Kindler

While in college I fell in love with the elegance of chemistry and with the process of “doing science”. After graduate school, I began my career as a chemist in the research lab of a northwest paper company. While I never lost my love of the physical sciences, over time, I also became keenly interested in the science of leadership. Accordingly, my career began to drift away from the laboratory and move toward the corner office. Trudy and I retired to Port Angeles, Washington in 2001 in order to pursue a passion for wooden boat building. In retirement, I remain committed to science education through participation on various boards (Nature Bridge,Port Angeles Education Foundation, College of Science and Engineering at Western Washington University) and other means of support. Other retirement activities include hiking and fly fishing.

“Ain’t it funny how your new life didn’t change things…”

While I was still working and beginning to contemplate early retirement, I pictured a life blissfully free of responsibilities, deadlines or accountabilities. I anticipated laying in bed in the morning thinking about what I was going to do that day. Maybe I would just lay around the house, read a book, do a crossword puzzle, … “Ain’t it funny how your new life didn’t change things…”

Principles of an Exciting and Fulfilling Retirement

After fifteen years of retirement I find myself thinking a lot about the components contributing to an exciting and fulfilling retirement. Reflecting on my own experiences,, observing others and, in a couple of cases, reading what others have said has caused a number of principles to begin to emerge from the mist. In this series … Principles of an Exciting and Fulfilling Retirement