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This is another in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Four jobs have turned to just three.<\/p>\n

More or less.<\/p>\n

I worked my last shift today as a “regular” part-time employee of an Amarillo auto dealership where I’ve been working for more than two years.<\/p>\n

No, I didn’t quit. I merely asked to work on an “as-needed basis.” Someone calls in sick? Or goes on vacation? Or gets stuck in the snow and ice? Call me. I’ll be\u00a0available . . . maybe.<\/p>\n

My availability will depend mostly on whether my wife and I are on the road tooling around the country towing our fifth wheel, or visiting with our granddaughter — and her parents and two brothers — in Allen, Texas.<\/p>\n

This retirement status has been slow to take root. I’m continuing to have too much fun as a freelance blogger for two media outlets. I’m continuing to write news features for NewsChannel10.com, which is the website for KFDA-TV in Amarillo. I also am writing blogs for PanhandlePBS.com, offering perspective on public affairs programming. The third job involves editing news copy and proofreading pages for a weekly newspaper in Tucumcari, N.M.<\/p>\n

I’m now officially a Social Security recipient, joining my wife, who decided to take “early retirement” a couple of years ago. Social Security says that at my age I am able to collect “full retirement benefits.”<\/p>\n

But the idea of going to work two or three — or sometimes four<\/em> — days a week became something that I found less appealing now that our household income took a dramatic boost once Social Security benefits began arriving.<\/p>\n

I don’t intend to quit the auto dealer job entirely. However, as retirement inches closer, I am looking forward to spending a lot more time at home doing what I enjoy the most . . . which is to write.<\/p>\n

And, oh yes. I also will keep pounding away from this platform.<\/p>\n

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