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is open to do that. Ah, so I’m on two time frames.  un-retired.
      By one o’clock in the afternoon, of course, I’m            I basically transitioned into my work-
      done with the East Coast, so that I can go back  from-home mode 11 years ago when I was still
      to West Coast time and jump three hours into  working for John Hancock customer service for

      the future and finish my day. But usually, about  long-term care. I transitioned into a dividend
      nine o’clock in the morning. I’m at a point where  blogging business at that time. When I was ready
      I’ve done my article for the day. And I’ve done  to quit Hancock and move to a warmer climate
      my broadcast and everything’s done. So I take a  than Boston, it was time to head off into a new

      break and a nap of anywhere from 45 minutes  career. I expanded my Dividend Dog Catcher
      to a couple of hours.                                  website and Seeking Alpha link. This is the
          I‘m on Seekingalpha.com (about the website) and  seventh portfolio I’m on, doing 52 stocks a year
      my pen name is Fredrik Arnold. I also have  over the last seven years.

      the Dividend Dog Catcher marketplace site on
      the same platform. I’m covered in two fields  What advice do you want to pass on to

      for people who want to subscribe directly to  the next generation?
      everything I have to say and for people who                Don’t get hardened in your ways and get

      just want to get the free stuff on Seeking Alpha.  stuck in any particular method of doing things.
      People  can become a member for free. Some  Because it’s all going to change eventually
       of my articles are free and other articles are on  anyway. If not by yourself, it will definitely
       my subscriber site.                                   evolve into a new method.

          Right now I’m using Facebook as an outreach            I was brought up in the Analog Age. I learned
       program. Every morning, I’m on at 5:45 Pacific  how to build a camera from a pinhole camera,
       time to do my Facebook Live Underdog Daily  exposing film and learning all of that technology.
       Dividend show. Or you can tune in later, because  It’s all gone. Now it’s all digital.

       it’ll be on the Dividend Dog Catcher Facebook             And believe it or not, the first digital camera
       page.                                                 was invented by Kodak. What did they do with
                                                             it? Nothing. They went down the tubes with the
       At 81, what is your philosophy on life?               Kodachrome process and all that,  just because

          The main thing is if you shut yourself down  they didn’t listen to themselves and their own
       into retirement mode, you might as well give  development team who had figured out how to
       up. It doesn’t work. It doesn’t help your health.  take digital pictures.
       It doesn’t give you necessarily pleasure, it gives        So everything changes, and you have to be

       you more worries whether your money is going  ready to cope with change. And if there were a
       to last. So a little action and doing things makes  fairy godmother that could grant a wish it would
       a big difference. Yeah. Working from home in  be to have infinite flexibility.
       the creator economy is a practical way to remain




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