Retire and Move to Florida, They Said: Part Three: The Move
I am retired…as a result, and we are ensconced in a new house in Florida minus most of what we had worked decades to afford.
Author: John McCumber
John McCumber is a cybersecurity executive, retired US Air Force officer, and former Cryptologic Fellow of the National Security Agency. In addition to his professional activities, John is a former Professorial Lecturer in Information Security at The George Washington University in Washington, DC and is currently a technical editor and columnist for Security Technology Executive magazine. John is the author of the textbook Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems: a Structured Methodology
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A Florida Retirement Community. How stereotypical, I thought. How cliché, I thought. But, maybe I want that, too, I thought.
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When my broker floated the retire idea, it was as if he recommended I go run off with the circus: it was a foreign concept.
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This is what true national infrastructure looks like. This is not the poll-tested, happy face definition of infrastructure.
Lazy Man’s Load: Credentialing and Education That Never Fails
Many educational institutions build their programs directly on the back of industry credentialing organizations.
Career Day: Knocker Uppers, Buggy Whip Makers, and Modern Work Life
We owe it to the next generations to help expose them to all the career options life offers while retaining a sense of practicality
Growing up in the System:
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Now that our society has the luxury to contemplate retirement planning, we have these dream salespeople who will run a simple calculator on your behalf.
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Exactly when you qualify as a “senior citizen” is not firmly established. For commercials and business, the sooner the better.
The Politics of Survival: Putting Yourself in a Box
Political conversation has focused on promises made by those who want our vote in exchange for elements of our perceived survival.
Drinking Cheap Vodka Will Kill You: A Twitter Parable
That’s the sentence that sent me to a 12-hour Twitter time-out so I could cool my heels and think about all the harm I wished to inflict.
When People Become Stateless
State residency is a debatable and fluid concept for people like you and every state you visit will eye you for potential revenue.
