When I got paid last week, it occurred to me that it was one of the last paychecks I'm likely to get in my life.
I've been earning a paycheck since I was a pre-teen. mowing lawns, paper route, radio DJ, data processing at a bank, computer operator at White Sands, satellite tracking technician, service engineer for HP, then many other jobs in HP, Agilent, Verigy, finally landing as VP of Marketing at Vision Research. Wow, probably close to 50 years of earning a paycheck. And, all without a break where I was unemployed.
This is scary. No more paychecks?
I've gotten very used to the idea of something coming in every couple of weeks to offset what gets paid out, and to have something left to set aside. Now, we'll have to be pulling from that "set aside" to live.
I will likely take on some periodic consulting or contract work in retirement. But no regular paycheck.
Very scary. But, the freedom of not getting up each week day with the obligation to put in a day's work for a paycheck very exciting. I have no idea what that is like.
Posted by Rick on 04/08/2016 at 06:48 AM
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1099’s are much easier. I highly recommend retirement .
Is it ok if I just keep sending you 1/2 of my paycheck like I’ve always done??