Never Retire - The Complete Never Retire Checklist

Part one: The state of your investments

Welcome to part one of our series—the Never Retire checklist.

In this series, we detail the key components you’ll probably have to consider if you plan to Never Retire. Of course, you’ll have to consider most of them if you plan to retire traditionally, however you approach each point in decidedly different ways when you know you’ll be working into relative old age.

• The state of your investments (part one—this installment)

• The state of your cash (part two)

• Where you live and how much it costs you (part three)

• 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)

The state of your investments

If you read my work on Medium, you might know I no longer invest in the stock market.

That said, I spent more than the first half of my writing career (from roughly 2008 to 2018) writing and editing stories about investing, in freelance and full-time capacities at Seeking Alpha, TheStreet.com, and other assorted outlets.

With money, investing was my initial passion (now, it’s personal finance). I was active in the stock market as a teenager and only decided to stop investing last year.

So even though I decided to (pretty much) stop investing, I fully comprehend that it’s an important component of many, if not most retire and Never Retire strategies.