Never Retire - I Was on a Bartender Podcast
We covered money topics that matter to most of us from a bartender's perspective
Quick installment to direct you to a podcast I recently appeared on—Bartender at Large with San Diego bartender and bar owner Erick Castro.
Castro saw some of the stuff I wrote for Chilled Magazine during the stay-at-home portion of the pandemic and decided to have me on to discuss personal finance for bartenders.
You can access the podcast episode HERE.
I’m not a fan of the sound of my own voice “on tape” so it’s a big deal I’m even publicizing this.
However, it’s important stuff. Thinking about what you’ll do for work as you get older.
Bartenders make the perfect case study.
They can do well financially—often quite well—however they work in a profession that tends to be tough on your body and mind. Plus, some bartenders—resulting from their nature, their environment or, often, a mix of both—don’t develop and maintain the best lifestyle habits.
It can be a vicious loop.
Not-so-good lifestyle choices can lead to poor physical and mental health.
In this respect, you might be able to equate what you do or have done to this experience.
If you sit or once sat behind a desk all day, ate fast food for lunch on the regular, and drank with your co-workers most nights for happy hour and beyond, you’re a few steps away from the bartender who doesn’t take even average care of their body.
As Castro pointed out on the podcast, we don’t talk about the future as bartenders, because it comes off as a buzzkill. It can kill the party.
You’re 25, 35, 45, whatever. You’re having fun. Living life.
Who wants to talk about what that life might look like at 55, 65, or 75? Or better yet, what it might very well look like if you don’t prepare starting now.
Flipping that question positive—what it could look like if you do start preparing now?
Anyhow, on the podcast we talk about how bartenders can transition into work they can do—or have a better shot at doing—in relative old age.
As we continue our latest newsletter series—the Never Retire checklist—we’ll go beyond bartenders and discuss how all of us—no matter what we do—can prepare professionally and from a cash flow standpoint for what life might look like (or what we want it to look like) in relative old age.
It’s always best to flip it positive, right?
Instead of how bad will it be if you don’t prepare, I’d rather go with how great it can be if you do prepare.
Here’s where we are and where we’re going with the Never Retire checklist—
Your physical and mental health (which is tied directly to the previous three points, particularly the third one) (part four)
The state of the work you do (part five)
Tying all five bullet points together (part six)
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