Never Retire: Living The Semi-Retired Life

Never Retire: Living The Semi-Retired Life

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Never Retire: Forget What Other People Are Doing
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Never Retire: Forget What Other People Are Doing

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Rocco Pendola
Oct 25, 2024
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As we sharpen our focus on the Never Retire proposition—whatever that looks like for you—we hit things from two distinct, yet interrelated angles. The practical and psychological.

Most recently on the practical with

Charlie Brown
’s story of how she started making a living as a freelance writer in only three years’ time—

Never Retire: Learn From This Life Meets Work Success Story

Never Retire: Learn From This Life Meets Work Success Story

Rocco Pendola
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October 22, 2024
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And the psychological earlier this month—

Never Retire: The Work And Retirement Stigma America Needs To Shake

Never Retire: The Work And Retirement Stigma America Needs To Shake

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October 10, 2024
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Some of us realize we’ll Never Retire out of necessity. This is where the stigma comes in. Somehow, you’re a failure because you couldn’t afford to buy a house AND save more than a million bucks for a traditional retirement.

If this makes you—and me—failures (we’re not), so be it. Because we’re in good mother fucking company. A bunch of individual situations happening independent of one another says there’s something wrong with the system—with our way of life—not the people out there doing their best to figure out and live life.

Anyhow—

Once you shake the stigma, you come to the kick ass part.

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