[WSBAPT] Life in general

[Jim Doran]

My two cents on this timely topic:

The essential questions that must be answered (besides your personal moral
code) for retirement are:
1) A man or a woman has to be somewhere?  Where is that going to be?
2) You have to have something interesting to do with your time.  What will
that be?
3) We are social creatures so we must have at least a minimal social life
after the "legal career" which kept us plenty socialized.  Who do you want
to see?

Oh, of course, the money has to work.

Three years ago I bought a home in Guanajuato Mexico and we spend five or
six months each year there.  They call it "jubilacion" here.
Jubilation!!!  The distance working that I was doing blended in with the
Covid constraints and now I am like everyone else.  (What a concept.)  Life
in the mountains of colonial old Mexico for the winter is pretty sweet.
Look at the city of Guanajuato if you want to find the "Jewel of Mexico".
And, of course, life in Cascadia for the spring, summer and fall is pretty
sweet, too.  Boating in the San Juans seems to be the next move for us, to
go along with car camping.

My theory has been to enjoy life and don't wait too long.  Intuition
sometimes leads better than rationality.  Put them both together, and
listen to both, and hallelujah.  Life is good.

James Doran
James R. Doran
Attorney at Law
100 E. Pine Street -  Suite 205
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360)393-9506
jim at doranlegal.com
www.doranlegal.com


On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 10:09 AM Philip N. Jones <pjones at duffykekel.com>
wrote:

> I am in a firm of about 15 estate planners.  The firm was founded in the
> 1930s.  In the entire history of the firm, only three attorneys have
> retired.  All the rest left with their boots on, sometimes feet first.
> They either died, had a stroke, or some other medical event that forced
> them out.  But they were still working.  Admittedly, most were working only
> a few days a week when the grim reaper (or the grim cardiologist) caught up
> with them.
> Why did they keep working and not retire sooner?  Lots of reasons.  Some
> did not have hobbies or play golf or play bridge.  Some enjoyed the work.
> Some needed the money.  Some had spouses who did not want them hanging
> around the house.  Unlike trial attorneys, estate planners can easily work
> part time.  And now with the pandemic, most of us are learning to work at
> home.
> Personally, I now work at home due to the pandemic, and I am one of the
> people who often posts on weekends and holidays.  I enjoy the work, as I
> hope my posts reflect.  When I post on a weekend or on a holiday, I am
> usually lying flat on my back twiddling with my Ipad, often at the beach or
> in the mountains.  Also, during the week I do not work long days.  In fact,
> some of my weekdays are very short.  I do whatever I please.  And on
> weekends and holidays, I do the same.
> Life is good.  I do not feel the need to get a different one.  As for
> others, your mileage may vary.
> Phil Jones
> Portland, OR
>
> Philip N. Jones
> Duffy Kekel LLP
> 900 S.W. Fifth Ave. Suite 2500
> Portland, OR 97204
> pjones at duffykekel.com
> (503) 226-1371 – office
> (503) 853-1482 – cell
> (503) 226-3574 - fax
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com>
> On Behalf Of tom tsh-law.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2021 12:12 PM
> To: wsbapt at lists.wsbarppt.com
> Subject: [WSBAPT] Life in general
>
> After 45 years of watching the toll lawyering has taken on many of my
> colleagues, it is disturbing to continue to receive  this section’ s
> postings every Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter and every Saturday and
> Sunday. Think about it.  Let’s all get a life.
>
> 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝'𝐬 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞
> (𝐖) 𝟐𝟎𝟔 𝟔𝟖𝟐 𝟒𝟓𝟎𝟏
> (𝐂) 206 𝟓𝟗𝟓 𝟏𝟔𝟐𝟏
>
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