{"id":14240,"date":"2016-04-24T01:07:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T01:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2016-04-24T01:07:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T01:07:39","slug":"full-time-retirement-inches-a-little-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14240","title":{"rendered":"Full-time retirement inches a little closer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the many\u00a0joys of my post-daily journalism life has been in telling folks that I work four — count ’em, four<\/em> — part-time jobs.<\/p>\n

Well, I can’t say that any longer.<\/p>\n

I’m down to three.<\/p>\n

Actually, you can call it two-and-a-half.<\/p>\n

What does this mean? Well, I figure it means I’ll have a bit more time to start looking forward to the full-time retirement gig that is looming ever larger on the horizon.<\/p>\n

Two of my remaining jobs are of the self-employment category. I work from home to do one of them, which is to edit news copy and proof-read pages for the Quay County Sun in Tucumcari, N.M. The other job requires to pile into a motor vehicle and interview subjects for stories I write for NewsChannel10.com, the website for KFDA-TV NewsChannel 10.<\/p>\n

A third\u00a0job came to an end this week when Panhandle PBS’s general manager informed me of the station’s plans to move in a new direction. I’m OK with the decision, although — as I admitted to my former boss — I am disappointed and, frankly, a little sad that my time there as a public affairs programming blogger has come to an end.<\/p>\n

Still, I wish them well. The station is run by a good crew of energetic and (mostly) young staffers intent on producing public television programming that matters to those who watch it.<\/p>\n

I made a decision a while ago to work at the automobile dealership only when needed: vacation or sick relief, those kinds of things. My employer agreed.<\/p>\n

What’s left for yours truly? Well, my hope is to stay busy writing and editing for as long as I can.<\/p>\n

My wife and I believe we are moving toward the best of our life together.<\/p>\n

We are eternal optimists. Not a thing that has happened since we entered this new phase of our life has changed our outlook about the prospect of full-time retirement.<\/p>\n

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This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement. One of the many\u00a0joys of my post-daily journalism life has been in telling folks that I work four — count ’em, four — part-time jobs. Well, I can’t say that any longer. I’m down to three. Actually, you can call … Continue reading Full-time retirement inches a little closer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[3294,3487,3790,3920],"class_list":["post-14240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-newschannel-10","tag-panhandle-pbs","tag-quay-county-sun","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14242,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions\/14242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}