SteveinMN
3-26-12, 10:12pm
Hello. I've been following this forum for a few weeks now and decided to join.
A little about me: I'm happily married (this time!). No children from my first marriage, but my wife has a (now-grown) daughter from hers. Most of our family is local, and that's really nice!
Right now I'm transitioning to a career as a photographer after -- frankly -- getting fairly burned out from many many years in Information Technology. I love being behind a camera and I see photography as something I can do -- and love -- for many more years.
I'm calling my leaving IT "early retirement." My wife wants to work for a few more years and then she wants to retire, too. So we're now shifting into "retirement mode."
I am hopeful that will not take too much shifting. Both my wife and I are fairly simple people. We're not hung up on brand names. We don't do anything just because "everyone else is doing it" or because we want to impress. Both of us have had times in our lives when we were right on the financial edge, so we know how to stretch dollars. We're not homebodies but we don't need to spend lots of money to have lots of fun. And we both value family, social justice, and quiet time. That doesn't have much to do with not being consumers or frugality, but it seems to fit in well here. :-)
It's nice to meet a group of kindred spirits -- even virtually. So ... hello!
A little about me: I'm happily married (this time!). No children from my first marriage, but my wife has a (now-grown) daughter from hers. Most of our family is local, and that's really nice!
Right now I'm transitioning to a career as a photographer after -- frankly -- getting fairly burned out from many many years in Information Technology. I love being behind a camera and I see photography as something I can do -- and love -- for many more years.
I'm calling my leaving IT "early retirement." My wife wants to work for a few more years and then she wants to retire, too. So we're now shifting into "retirement mode."
I am hopeful that will not take too much shifting. Both my wife and I are fairly simple people. We're not hung up on brand names. We don't do anything just because "everyone else is doing it" or because we want to impress. Both of us have had times in our lives when we were right on the financial edge, so we know how to stretch dollars. We're not homebodies but we don't need to spend lots of money to have lots of fun. And we both value family, social justice, and quiet time. That doesn't have much to do with not being consumers or frugality, but it seems to fit in well here. :-)
It's nice to meet a group of kindred spirits -- even virtually. So ... hello!