Retirement Help

Retirement Help

Yummy!

Now that looks good.

Having this blog created with my initial post is like having dessert placed on top of the dining table. Smiling, you finally get to see it and you are eager to take a bite of it to taste.

Oops, but dessert comes last remember? Had to go through the appetizers and main course. May or may not like the line-up, right?

I am a technically-challenged person. Talo ako ni Lola Techie. I retired after my more than 20 years of employment. I went into sports after resigning and abandoned the computer for a pair of rubber shoes and a tennis racket.

Out of the blues, just this year, I was given an unexpected gift . . . a compact, colored lap tap. Wow naman, ang ganda, ano kaya gagawin ko dito. Well, I welcomed it because it was cute. But of course, I was forced to open and use it. Little by little, I went back to tinkering the keyboard.

One thing lead to another. I enrolled in an Internet marketing workshop which got me into this. Seminars, however are seminars, until you put the learnings to a Go gear. Warm from the student role for a couple of days, I went into working on how to apply what was imparted by the instructor. But as I shared with you earlier, I am a technically-challenged individual. Unfortunately, I do not know Lola Techie to get some advise. I turned into doing some homework. I got some tutorial videos and read some material from the Internet. What was said to take five minutes to do the job , took me a whole day to do plus a disastrous dinner where the rice got partially uncooked and had to order out. Whew!

I am not to quit now, I told myself. I went ahead and ate the partially uncooked rice, no choice. No quitting, well, no yet please. Finally, finally, I created "the blog", yehey. With a long sigh of relief at about midnight, I sent a link to "the blog" to my instructor for checking. And what do you know, he said " . . . create another please". Aray!

Quit time? Oh no, just go, go, go. Go back to the drawing board. Read, read, memorize, memorize. Feeling a pulsating beat on my temples. Type, type, read, read, work, work, go, go.

And now look guys, dessert!

Thanks for letting me share you this experience.

“Retirement: When you quit working just before your heart does.”

“Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.”

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