Is There Ever A Right Time to Retire?
The VAR Guy has a confession: He's fried. Burned out. Exhausted. Blogging until all hours of the night can do that to you. But will our resident blogger ever retire? Can he trade in his keyboard for a recliner? Doubtful. Here's why. Retirement is when you replace your career with a bunch of hobbies (or death). But in The VAR Guy's case, his career is his hobby: Reading and writing about technology
February 18, 2009
The VAR Guy has a confession: He’s fried. Burned out. Exhausted. Blogging until all hours of the night can do that to you. But will our resident blogger ever retire? Can he trade in his keyboard for a recliner? Doubtful. Here’s why.
Retirement is when you replace your career with a bunch of hobbies (or death). But in The VAR Guy’s case, his career is his hobby:
Reading and writing about technology
Trying new technology
Gossiping about the business of technology
Speaking with hundreds of sources regularly about the future of technology
All of those items are fun… and they require The VAR Guy to crawl out of bed in the morning, walk 10 feet, and sit down in his home office. Not a bad life.
Still, blogging can be draining. And the even bigger drain is search engine optimization. It’s like exercising: You need to do it every day otherwise everything falls to pieces.
So, at least for a few minutes today The VAR Guy will contemplate retirement — until the next juicy tech rumor lands in his inbox, providing inspiration for his next blog entry of the day…
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