First of all, Merry Christmas wherever you are. Thanks for your perspective, which I enjoy (obviously since I subscribe.)
Since I'm not retired yet, my plan for retirement was to be a writer - but economic conditions during the Great Recession hastened that by about 15 years. So in a sense I'm really not going to retire, but I will someday stop going to a job every weekday - after eight years, I finally got the job I was laid off from back after a series of detours that included scrambling for the aforementioned writing jobs.
I have a smattering of paid subscribers here but also get a monthly stipend from another writing job, so it is a work in progress. While I do enjoy traveling to some extent, I also like sleeping in my own bed that's not a foam mattress, but to each his or her own.
Okay. Hi Michael. You can I have a regular bed mattress of your choice. It doesn't have to be a phone mattress. I just so happen to like phone mattresses. Thank you for wishing me a Merry Christmas. It's been a relaxed one. Well, you can retire. Once you retire, you can be a writer. You can be writing now, before you retire. You can start by journaling and writing short stories; that's a good idea. I find out that after retirement, a person doesn't want to just sit around and do nothing. They want to be active. Having a variety of things you enjoy doing is important, but writing seems to put it all together.
There's an AI tool out there called Flow that's speech-enabled, and it's wonderful. I just discovered it recently. It helps you speak your notes in instead of writing. It saves a lot of time, and they're extremely accurate. I'm so surprised.
You sound like you're loving life and that's good enough for me.
As long as our health and finances hold out once my wife and I get there, I'm sure we will enjoy our retirements too. It just won't be in a van, that's all - we'll keep our home base here in Delaware as long as we can.
We do have some nice state parks, though, if you wander this way.
First of all, Merry Christmas wherever you are. Thanks for your perspective, which I enjoy (obviously since I subscribe.)
Since I'm not retired yet, my plan for retirement was to be a writer - but economic conditions during the Great Recession hastened that by about 15 years. So in a sense I'm really not going to retire, but I will someday stop going to a job every weekday - after eight years, I finally got the job I was laid off from back after a series of detours that included scrambling for the aforementioned writing jobs.
I have a smattering of paid subscribers here but also get a monthly stipend from another writing job, so it is a work in progress. While I do enjoy traveling to some extent, I also like sleeping in my own bed that's not a foam mattress, but to each his or her own.
Okay. Hi Michael. You can I have a regular bed mattress of your choice. It doesn't have to be a phone mattress. I just so happen to like phone mattresses. Thank you for wishing me a Merry Christmas. It's been a relaxed one. Well, you can retire. Once you retire, you can be a writer. You can be writing now, before you retire. You can start by journaling and writing short stories; that's a good idea. I find out that after retirement, a person doesn't want to just sit around and do nothing. They want to be active. Having a variety of things you enjoy doing is important, but writing seems to put it all together.
There's an AI tool out there called Flow that's speech-enabled, and it's wonderful. I just discovered it recently. It helps you speak your notes in instead of writing. It saves a lot of time, and they're extremely accurate. I'm so surprised.
You sound like you're loving life and that's good enough for me.
As long as our health and finances hold out once my wife and I get there, I'm sure we will enjoy our retirements too. It just won't be in a van, that's all - we'll keep our home base here in Delaware as long as we can.
We do have some nice state parks, though, if you wander this way.