Living The Semi-Retired Life: We Have Hit 2,000 Subscribers

And how my teenage years foreshadowed my semi-retired life

Ding, ding, ding. We have hit a milestone in the Never Retire: Living The Semi-Retired Life newsletter.

Thanks to all 2,000 subscribers. Big thanks to the 193 with a paid subscription.

In anticipation of hitting 200 paid subscribers, let’s run an old school promotion that ties into the content of today’s installment. We’ll go back to my childhood and discuss how the career I had then—in radio—foreshadowed the way I experience life today.

I don’t listen to the radio much today, outside of Sirius XM, so I’m not sure if this is still a thing. But I used to love hearing and, when I worked in radio, conducting those contests where you had to be caller number whatever to win a prize.

Caller 100 right now to 1-800-242-0100 (still the number to call Z-100 in New York City?) and you win two tickets to see Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at Madison Square Garden.

Probably not a show Z-100 gives tickets away to in 2023, but I bet they did in 1984!

So, if you’re “caller” number 194, 195, 196, 197, 198 or 199, I will add one free month to your subscription.

Go with the $5 monthly option and you get one month free.

Go with the $50 annual option and I will extend your subscription by one month, effectively making it a 13- rather than 12-month plan.

Then, lucky “caller” number 200 gets whatever subscription they sign up for converted to a lifetime subscription.

A nice segue into today’s story, one I haven’t told too many people.