First things first, I didn’t do what the title says 🙂  This is my first attempt at joining the bottom-dwelling world of clickbaity bloggers who use salacious and misleading titles to gain clicks, and probably my last. If you’re new...
The starving artist is a concept that has old roots. The idea of pursuing a life making art and suffering the financial consequences has been romanticized in movies and popular culture. As a consumer of art my favorite art form...
I’ve been part time at my main W2 job for well over 4.5 years now. Not 32 hours a week, but a scant 20 hours a week. A drastic change like that after almost 25 years of full time workaholism...
In the early 1990’s as unemployment crested past 7.5% and a recession plagued the economy, I was ready to graduate college. Jobs were hard to come by and things were bleak. The situation didn’t scare me as much as it...
By now you’ve undoubtedly heard about the Great Resignation, a term coined by an economist this past April which saw a record-breaking number of “quits”. The number of resignations increased each month this year, and in August alone 4.3 million...
Recently I was on a morning run and having one of those days. I was low energy, my legs had no pep, and I just felt blah. I was determined to push through, but my pace was way off my...
Back before I semi-retired and became a highly paid professional blogger, I was a pretty highly paid manager. I was head of a large office at my agency with over 70 employees working for me and a huge budget. I...
My arms were starting to go numb and the sweat poured off my chin. My boss Joe kept throwing 40 pound bags of fertilizer onto the pile from the top of the rack, and expected me to move them off...
I’ve written on numerous occasions about the future of work and how new technologies will impact it.  The labor force is a constantly changing and evolving entity, with expanding and shrinking parts driven by societal and technological changes. If I...
If you’re a new reader and not familiar with my backstory, in a nutshell I became financially independent in my mid-40’s and went down to 20 hours a week at my W2 job. I now spend the newly freed 20...
I sometimes see complaints in the personal finance community that bloggers focus too much on frugality and saving money and not enough on making more money. There’s an endless number of posts about side hustling out there, but admittedly there...
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2024 Activity Tracker
Cycling:Â 1371 Miles
Running:Â 112 Miles
Hiking:Â 19 Miles
Paddling:Â 5 Miles
Climbing Days:Â 1
2023 Activity Tracker
Cycling:Â 5400Â Miles
Running:Â 472 Miles
Hiking:Â 37 Miles
Paddling:Â 96 Miles
Climbing Days:Â 6
2022 Activity Tracker
Cycling:Â 5408 Miles
Running:Â 321 Miles
Hiking:Â 43 Miles
Paddling:Â 40 Miles
Climbing Days:Â 7
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