Amethyst
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I'm female, over 50, and a proud super saver. If I say I'm really a transgender man, can I play? Oh wait, I'm married
Folks, I just finished a phone call with Richard Sine and it went very well. He does a professional interview and Men's Health is buying a real no-foolin' article on early retirement. I guess you could say that financial health is part of Men's Health.
The best part of the interview is where he mentioned that I'll be hearing from their fact-checker. It tells me that the magazine is spending the money to do it right. The SEO works so much better when your name is spelled correctly, too...
He's seeking more guys to interview, whether you're still pursuing FI or already FI or already FIRE'd. Fuego, JJac, I think you two would be particularly good interviews because of your age and kids and (JJac) expat lifestyle. ClifP, you'd be great from the perspectives of experience (including two recessions during ER), Hawaii, landlording, and angel investing. That's off the top of my head-- there are probably other posters here who I don't know very well but who are exactly the type of men he'd like to speak with.
If you're a personal-finance blogger who wants to raise his profile: this is one of the ways you do it.
I'm going to e-mail Richard a few names of other people who are either already FI or who are doing a great job of figuring it out. Feel free to contact him directly, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions about being interviewed.
Did the article ever get published? If it did do you have a link? Thank you
I was in the article. It appeared in print but not on line. I had to go to the library to find it, the October 2015 issue IIRC. There were only a few sentences written about me, not even worthy of making a photocopy of it.
Did the article ever get published? If it did do you have a link? Thank you
I was in the article. It appeared in print but not on line. I had to go to the library to find it, the October 2015 issue IIRC. There were only a few sentences written about me, not even worthy of making a photocopy of it.
He must have been impressed with the names I sent him. (Philip Taylor of FinCon & PT Money, Wes Moss, and Billy Kaderli.) My referrals seem to have kept me from making the final cut...I'm going to e-mail Richard a few names of other people who are either already FI or who are doing a great job of figuring it out.
They followed up with the online version a few months later:
How to Retire 10 Years Earlier | Men's Health
He must have been impressed with the names I sent him. (Philip Taylor of FinCon & PT Money, Wes Moss, and Billy Kaderli.) My referrals seem to have kept me from making the final cut...
I had a similar experience. I got my picture above the fold of the business section and a brief paragraph while one of my referrals got several paragraphs along with a bigger picture inside. I rationalized it by thinking the referral got the piece published.He must have been impressed with the names I sent him. (Philip Taylor of FinCon & PT Money, Wes Moss, and Billy Kaderli.) My referrals seem to have kept me from making the final cut...
Interested members should contact Peter Kendall by PM or post in this thread.Are you facing retirement earlier than you had planned?
I am a journalist working on a story, and I am looking to talk to those who recently found themselves retired or semi-retired, whether by choice or not.
If that sound like you, I’d love to hear from you.
More background on me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakendall/
Thanks for reading!
Peter Kendall
Are you facing retirement earlier than you had planned?
I am a journalist working on a story, and I am looking to talk to those who recently found themselves retired or semi-retired, whether by choice or not.
If that sound like you, I’d love to hear from you.
More background on me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakendall/
Thanks for reading!
Peter Kendall
I think he is looking for people who recently found themselves retired earlier than 65, and against their will.
Not many people here but maybe one to five?
Yes, I'm cynical and suspicious of him and his ilk.
The moderator team vetted this request for approval, so please assume good intent.
We've handled requests like this in the past. If you are interested, you can PM Mr. Kendall. If you're not interested, then don't. But there is little reason to explain why you are not interested or turn it into a discussion of journalistic method. It only clogs up what is essentially just a "notice" thread.
Thank you for replying.Peter,
Questions:
1. In your LinkedIn post on the same topic, you add an age qualifier ("early 60s" https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6851633085520465920). That age qualifier is not here. Does it apply or not?
2. What is the story as you've ascertained it so far, and what is left to be learned from recent retirees?
3. What qualifies as "recently"?
I retired by choice at age 46 about six years ago. I'm not sure if I qualify for your story. I'm also not sure I want to be involved in your story if the storyline has already been determined and you're just looking for supporting anecdotes.
I don't have my story already written (believe me!). I am, however, talking to people who fit into a pretty narrow category -- those who retired earlier than they had planned in the last year or two. I realize that is not everybody. However, it is a large group of people, and I am interested in hearing and telling their stories.Yeah, which makes me think he's already got his story written except for the personal anecdotes. Not really interested in helping a journalist fill in the blanks on their preconceived notions.
He does say "by choice or not". I wonder if his final story will exclude people who retired based on a long plan (like me and most of us here), or if that will just be a side note at the end of the story which will mostly be about people who fell on bad times.
As an aside, I literally can't go one mile in my town without tripping over a zero-skill or low-skill job paying $15 an hour. That's $30K a year full time, which won't get you very far in the big coastal cities but around here is a decent but modest income. Two people that's $60K, which is above the median household income.
Yes, I'm cynical and suspicious of him and his ilk.
I don't have my story already written (believe me!). I am, however, talking to people who fit into a pretty narrow category -- those who retired earlier than they had planned in the last year or two. I realize that is not everybody. However, it is a large group of people, and I am interested in hearing and telling their stories.
I..Mr. Kendall,
Thank you for both of your replies.
Since your qualifications include "earlier than they had planned" and "in the last year or two", I do not meet your criteria.
Good luck with your story.