after all, fortunate enough to be in good health and have a few years to try and rebuild our modest
nest egg before retiring. So we began to run through the alternatives that may
be available to us. Terry has honed her skills on Ebay and will sell off item
by item to the highest bidder the 35+ years of crap that is our basement. I’m
trying to convince her to branch out into knitting and marketing kitchen appliance cozies but she’s not keen on that
one (yet). I thought of taking on a paper route – I could use the exercise
riding my bike each day or maybe selling newspaper subscriptions (as a kid I won a football for signing up some poor suckers
to that conservative rag known as the Long Island Press –I can still remember my parents’ agita in discussing
whether to let me participate or not)… but in their current state of decline I don’t think the newspapers are
hiring. While in that frame of mind I also thought about putting a sign on my
lawn to sell lattes since I have some modicum of skill in that area and prior experience peddling lemonade as a kid but in
the current economy I think I missed my big opportunity, i.e., no one can afford lattes and Starbucks is shutting their doors left and right.
The other day I read about (in one of those newspapers in decline) a teenager who is raking in big bucks (thousands
per month) hawking YouTube videos on the internet. My lack of skills in this
area have already been established but it did get me thinking. Around the same
time, my friend Andy who you met in the opening paragraph described this on- line publishing scheme in which you can make
big bucks if you’re willing to tolerate ads on your site and people actually click on them. Terry and I almost never watch live TV anymore – everything gets recorded on the DVR so we can fly
through the commercials and focus on what we’re actually watching - so I figure the chances of the latter are really
pretty slim but hey, ya never know.
OK, now you have the whole story. We’ll see how long this thing
lasts and how soon the nest egg for retirement is restored. So, happy reading
and get back to Opinion8ed with your comments (opinion8ed.tripod@yahoo.com).
