Never Retire - A Checklist To Prepare
Plus new subscription options for existing and prospective subscribers
Just a quick installment today to preview what’s to come over the next week or two and introduce a new way to subscribe to the Never Retire newsletter and support my work as a freelance writer.
Yesterday, I was a guest on a popular podcast for bartenders called, Bartender At Large. When my episode airs, I’ll let you know.
The topic—personal finance tips for bartenders.
I wrote about the experience in a Medium article that’ll hit tomorrow. Here in the newsletter, I will take the key points several steps further in a series of installments.
The basic premise I floated was that bartenders must prepare to transition from the physically demanding work of being behind the bar to something else, be it another role in the industry or a career change entirely. This applies twice if you determine that you’ll Never Retire.
Given the nature of the job, it’s easy to tailor the conversation to things specific to being a bartender.
That said, no matter the line of work we all have to make the same general assessments to prepare for work beyond traditional retirement.
Of course, these evaluations take into account more than the work you do itself. They must be comprehensive.
Therefore, we dedicate the next several newsletter installments to a checklist focusing on the elements you should focus on getting in order ahead of your Never Retire years.
The state of your investments
The state of your cash
Where you live and how much it costs you
Your physical and mental health (which is tied directly to the previous three points, particularly the third one)
The state of the work you do
Tying all five bullet points together
So that covers the next six installments of the newsletter.
Each one will step-by-step detail—
How to assess your current situation
How to consider changes
How to implement changes using a variety of hypothetical situations you can adapt to your personal circumstances
I look forward to going deep in the weeds on this series. Even deeper than we did in the recent working in retirement collection.
Quick note—these installments will only be available to paid newsletter subscribers.
With that in mind, I have added a Founding Member subscription plan to the newsletter.
Though the suggested price is set at $100, you can pay as little as $50 (the standard one-year subscription price) or as much as you’d like.
If you presently subscribe at the $50 level, you can make an additional donation, however I will consider you a founding member going forward, which means the $50 you paid when you signed up gives you a lifetime subscription with no additional obligatory charges. This change for all annual subscribers goes into effect today.
I will do the same for any $5/month members who upgrade to an annual subscription between now and the end of the day in California on Friday.
As you can see if you read content online or listen to podcasts, every creator—from individuals to large corporations—have adopted subscription-based models. This is, in part, because online ad revenue isn’t what it used to be. The model—for both types of revenue generation—has changed significantly over the last few years.
I now earn most of my money on the basis of readers reading what I write, yes, but more so how long they read and if they decide to pay to subscribe to the platform they’re reading on.
In effect, you can pay as much as you like to support via a founding member subscription, as long as it is more than the standard $50 annual subscription charge. Anything above that is essentially considered a tip—as you see with the Patreon model and such.
If you’re currently an annual subscriber, as of today, you’re locked in for life with no additional charges.
If you upgrade from $5/month to $50/annual or founding member between now and Friday, you’re also locked in for life with no additional charges.
Of course, you can always subscribe using the standard $5/month and $50/annual plans.
As always, thank you for reading and supporting my work as a freelance writer. I appreciate it.
Rocco
Looking forward to the checklist and the details!