It has been quite a while…

If any readers of this blog have seen my other articles about what I have been doing lately, you may realize why I haven’t been active for quite a while on this blog, especially if any of you own or have ever owned your own business. The saying, “if it were easy, everyone would do it” is as true as true can be!

The purpose of this article will be to speak to why I haven’t been writing for a while and to bring my passion of sharing issues and raising awareness of The Baby Boomer Generation.

The short story from 2008 is that my job of 22+ years was outsourced at the beginnings of our country’s second biggest depression. I was unemployed for two years, while trying to look for a job and also deciding what else I could do. In 2009, I began my journey to create my own business, beginning with a “How to start a small business” course at a local community college, talking to my local SCORE representative and many other business mentors I either knew or just reached out to. I opened my business, David’s Music House, Inc. on October, 10, 2010 (10.10.10) I have now been open for 18 months and it has indeed been a journey of highs and lows! What I have learned is exactly what I was told in the beginning by all my mentors….it would be hard, it would take 3 to 5 years to see success and you can only succeed IF you don’t quit. The key to not quitting is continuing growth and searching for solutions for the dollars to last until success. It is indeed a FACT, that no one can succeed by quitting.

As I continue to search for ways to search for ways to make my business grow, I am also quite aware that I am still moving on the path of extending work years, or delay of retirement. I planned my business to be one that I not only have a passion for but also would be able to continue working beyond what were once considered retirement years. Being a member of the Baby Boomer Generation brings me to think about these actions that I and all of us Boomers are currently going through.

Only time and history will tell the true story of what effect the Baby Boomer Generation has had on our civilization, but there is no doubt that the Boomers effect our country by their sheer numbers. This applies for what this largest segment of the population is going through as we approach the retirement years. Retirement has been re-defined by occurrences of the last decade. Healthcare and new medical advances are continually extending the lifespan. While is definitely a good thing, from the perspective of us Boomers, what we do and go through has a profound effect on the course of all others as well.

Baby Boomers have been caring and dealing with their aging parents while we hit our 4th and 5th decades of life and we well know and wonder how our children will deal with the same issues. Will they even be able to deal with the impact of Boomers aging? One thing is certain and that is that we Boomers should be doing as much as we can to lessen the impact of what our children have to deal with….such as homes not cared for, estates not properly and legally planned, how to make decisions without living wills and legal documents to guide them.

I went into this segway of Boomers aging as that is what I am currently thinking about…..what do I need to do to deal with aging? How can I make it easier for my children to deal with my aging? One thing my wife and I have done is to create all the legal documentation, such as wills, living wills that clearly state and therefore take the decision and issues out of the hands of our children. We are also downsizing our home to one that we can more easily care for, is less of a financial burden for us rather than continue living in a home too large to care for so that they someday have to deal with their homes as well as ours.

It is important for us Boomers to do the same things we have been doing for our children since they were born…and that is everything we can to make them better people, follow the golden rule, try to make the planet better for them by recycling and paying attention to supporting better ways of energy consumption and prepare and clean up our lives so that they don’t have to do it. We are always parents, as long as we are on this planet, even if we don’t have children….all who remain after the Boomer Generation is gone are all of our children and they will benefit or not based on our actions.

New freelance position and a HUGE thank you to my readers!

I just wanted to do a post to announce that I am taking on more freelance contract writing. I am now writing for Associated Content and really in the beginning stages of learning AC methodology. The first thing that I like is that you can write about various subject matter, giving a bit more freedom and opportunity to earn more income. The hard part about Examiner.com is that you are given a subject and title and although it makes you more of an expert in that area, it restricts your income amount. After all, writers doing political or current news subject matter are going to be getting much more attention as they can write about current hot topics of the news of the day. If your topic has a smaller target audience, it takes much more marketing to find your readers. In any case, it is all a valuable learning experience. Nothing learned is ever wasted.

Associated Content pays more per article and has affiliations with other websites that may post your material. This gives you more distribution changes, thus more visibility, thus more potential income.

I want to give as much encouragement as possible to any of my readers who may thinking of being a freelance writer. There’s a lot out there, but there’s also a lot of opportunity. If you ever thought you liked writing, whether it be creative or journalist, give some of these on-line freelance websites a try. As I said, nothing learned is ever wasted.

I want to also thank anyone who has kept in touch with me, especially all those that I worked with over the last 20 years or so. Your support gives me the encouragement to continue pursuing my dreams when I have those days where I wonder if I’m doing the right thing in my life. I need those reminders to snap myself out of falling back on the same lame excuses that I said to myself before, whenever the going got tuff...

Boomers are facing more issues as they are looking for jobs again.

Baby Boomers are dealing with a lot of hard issues today. If they are lucky enough to still have a job, they still face the daily stress of how long that may last. We are hearing more lay offs every week, by the thousands! In the times of their lives when they were all just beginning to think about getting away from the grind of the years of dealing with daily stress on the job site, to go to the cabin in the woods, golf course or some sunny location, they are discovering that they have to get back in the saddle and compete with the Gen Y's and X's for the few jobs still available.

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