Retirement

The expected, unexpected, and downright surprising — In the middle of last Novemer (2021), I delivered my last project to a client and retired early. I was a freelancer with several loyal and wonderful clients, so retiring then wasn’t something I had originally planned. In fact, the initial plan was to work another 4 years to hit…

Is The Honeymoon Over Yet? — You work for 40-plus years until the day you can finally clear out your desk for the last time and start living the rest of your life. Okay, so here I am, one month into my retirement, and like the balloon I received on my last day of work, the…

let’s talk about retirement. Early retirement! VERY early retirement! — This is basically a rehash of an article I wrote recently titled “This Crypto Could Enable You to Afford Your Dream Home in Less Than Two Years!” because I noticed that a lot of people had read it. I figured I could get a similar result by simply changing the…

My response to Fidelity’s 2022 (and past years) Retiree Health Cost Estimate — My response to Fidelity’s 2022 (and past years) Retiree Health Cost Estimate Each year Fidelity releases their annual Retiree Health Cost Estimate. In the latest release, Fidelity has increased a retiree’s financial needs from $300,000 in 2021 to $315,000 today. Quite frankly, that number just seemed way off base to…

Is there such a thing as an overworked retire-aholic? Is there a cure? — Is there such a thing as an overworked retire-aholic? Is there a cure? My alarm shattered the darkness so I sprung up and dashed through the shower and drove to my friend’s winery to spend hours pumping the precious elixirs from casks to tanks and back again. I left tired…