Time to grow up!

I am starting a new job next week. I will be cooking at the St Cloud Hospital. I am a little over 50 years old and I suppose it was time to grow up and get a big boy job! It's the first job in my working career that offers a full benefit package and 40 hr work weeks. What am I going to do with all the extra time? It does require every other weekend but that is less weekends then in the past. It was a challenge to get this job. Over the years I have applied over 6 times for various positions including other cook positions and this was the first time for an interview. The hardest part of the process was trying to get my immunization records. 40 years ago they didn't keep such great records of such things and it took a blood test to see if I had antibodies in my system for Mumps, Measles & Rubella, which luckily I did or it would have been a 4 week delay to get shots. I am still going to be helping out at the Pizza Ranch for a couple of days a week. I am very grateful to Jackie and Darren for giving me the opportunity to work there for the past 3 1/2 years. I met a lot of great young people that I would have never had the chance to get to know. I'll bet that it was close to 4 or 5 hundred different people under the age of 25 over the time frame. It was fun to watch many of them grow over their time at the Ranch. The only thing that will be a challenge for me is this is the first job that my hours wouldn't be very flexible. No more last minute let's go to the lake or casino trips. They will have to be more planned out, but it seems a small price to pay. I may even get a chance to play some poker occasionally as a lot of my shifts will be early in the day. I guess we will have to wait and see.