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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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