‘Third Acts’

Retirement is often considered the end, but what if it’s really just the beginning?

A Gettysburg College study found the average person spends 90,000 hours — or one third of their lifetime — at work. For some, retirement is an opportunity for reinvention and trying something different.

Robin Hostick, now 54, had worked in city government for a decade but is best known these days for his large sublime landscape paintings. “I’ve been an artist my whole life,” he says. “I was one of those kids that always won the poster contest in school.”

Growing up in Jacksonville, Oregon, Robin was obsessed with art. But the idea of making a living as an artist didn’t seem possible. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a landscape architecture degree. “A fantastic blend of my passion for th