Never Retire: Sounds Like a Stigma—Until You Realize It’s a Strategy

How I learned to live with uncertainty and build something that works

Never Retire hits hard the first time you hear it.

You can’t help but to view it negatively. Like you’re slogging through a workday, your manager drops your paycheck on your desk, you look at the number and think—

I’ll never retire. I’ll be working for the rest of my life.

In American society—and many others—we’ve been conditioned to believe that if you don’t quit work somewhere between 60 and 70, it means you failed.

You didn’t work hard enough. You didn’t save enough. You didn’t pick yourself up by your bootstraps enough.

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If any of this resonates—if you’ve been thinking differently about work, retirement, or what a sustainable life even looks like—you’re in the right place.

I’m writing more posts this month about how I earn, spend, move, and structure a life that works without chasing the traditional version of retirement.

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Never Retire is part writing, part philosophy, part experiment in living better—especially in midlife.

Thanks for reading.