I'd really love to hear some insight on retirement as well. With my full time job having a pretty solid pension this topic is the biggest deterrent from going full time(into photography). Just thinking about adding this into my pricing scheme is frightening...
And I know Tony/Amy are the bomb but do they have concerns with always being current/relevant? I mean because of their client base being so strong they'll always have work, but what about how they feel about all the new kids on the block and the "new styles." Do you feel that in 10 years you'll still be cool? This kind of ties in with retirement and that your future financial situation would most likely be based on the fact that you need to shoot for 20+ years at WXYZ dollar amount.
The full time dilemma is something I have a hard time coming to a solid conclusion on. Many of the people I know who shoot "full time" count on their spouse for things such as retirement planning and medical. I would rather not depend on my wife for these things.
Since many of you are asking for retirement planning, here's your retirement plan. Take all yo money and SHORT higher education.
Done deal.
No but seriously... I've been trying to figure out a rational way to short higher ed for about a year now (as a small side portion of my retirement planning) ... so far I haven't come up with anything I feel is strongly correlated with a bust (or at least a growth collapse) of that
P.S. The first part of my post is (hopefully obviously) a joke. any financial suggestion that starts off with "take all your money..." is probably NOT a sound strategy... unless whoever is suggesting it actually owns a DeLorean
Thanks for the questions everyone. We ended up covering a bunch of them. Podcast went very well and will be up next Monday. There's a new one up today to hold you over...
you all don't need me to tell you this, but Tony is a serious class-act and very down-to-Earth. A real pleasure to talk to him.
