f you are like most people system, the housing market, oil
in the ‘over 50’ or Baby dependency, the falling dollar,
Boomer crowd, you are etc, These worries combine to
rightfully concerned about having have me concerned whether or not
saved enough to provide enough I have saved enough over the
income in your retirement years. years.
That income will be needed to
Maybe you have heard the
allow you and your spouse to analogy that defines the word
relax and enjoy your well earned ‘commitment’ It say that this
retirement years. Like me, you morning I had eggs and ham for
have probably dreamed of the time breakfast. The egg that produced
when you would have more control my eggs was ‘involved in my
over your lifestyle and not have breakfast, but the pig was
to put up with jobs or people you ‘committed to it!
do not care for just to make ends
Well, since I have already
meet. ‘pulled the plug’ and begun to
No, we want better than that! I draw my Social Security at age
decided long ago that, sooner or 63, I am now ‘committed’. These
later, I would enjoy being the concerns and worries had me
master of my own life and not considering going back to work at
having to do the things that I a traditional job, but I really
have had to do my entire career. like the freedom of a retirement
I will probably never quit lifestyle.
‘working’ entirely; I wanted to
Shortly after I retired last
just quit ‘having to work’. I year and the immediate excitement
will do this on my terms!
of retirement passed, I began to
But, I have been worried! feel depressed. You see, most of
Worried about my lack of a my daily human interaction, other
traditional pension, the eventual than my wife, used to come from
insolvency of the Social Security my job, and now that was gone. My
feelings of self worth seemed to for sale. There are just so very
be diminishing. I knew that I many ways to earn some extra
really had to find something to cash.
do.
The wonderful thing about this
I began about to explore the is that these things earn money
possibilities of earning some in my absence, even when I’m
income through various internet playing golf or sleeping, so my
activities. My objective was not time is still my own. I am not
to ‘Get Rich’ (although that tied down and we are free to
would be nice!), but to travel at will – and the cash
dramatically reduce the amount of just seems to keep coming in!
cash that I need to take from my
These Internet-oriented
investments to live on. If I can projects have not produced much
just leave my savings grow, more than $2,000 a month so far,
essentially untouched, for a few but I am not disappointed. I am
years, then my confidence in the continuously challenged to always
future will be greatly improve on this, and I am
improved.
confident that, with some effort
On the Internet, I have done on my part, I will. While
several things to earn some everybody seems to want more
income. I have written a book (an money, I am now worried that if I
e book) that I sell on the am too successful, these projects
internet. I have setup websites will consume too much of my time
on many topics of my interest, to enjoy life! That would be a
such as power boating. Those tragedy.
sites host some Google ads which
Many of my retiree friends (as
pay me a real small fee every well as retiree ‘wannabees’) want
time someone clicks on them. I to know how I am doing this. For
have bought and sold items on that reason, I have created a
eBay and produced videos and CD’s website for people to come and to
learn some of the techniques and
skills that it takes to google_ad_client =
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surpassed my income level so far.
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About the Author:
Don Seibert is a retired business executive who writes books and articles on Retirement and how to carve out a great retirement lifestyle. Don hosts a popular retirement income website at http://www.RetireToEasyStreet.com DOn's daily blog on retirement income is at http://www.retiree-finance.com .
