I still remember, with a good portion of embarrassment, a conversation with very close friends around our kitchen table. This took place over a decade ago and we were reminiscing about our summer jobs. By that time, we were all highly successful in our respective occupations and hence the conversation was coloured by the romanticism of distance and selective memory.

Debt: n – a liability or obligation to pay or render something and/or the condition of being under such an obligation.

Example: We went into debt paying medical bills.

Property prices have soared in the City of Angels with an average year-over-year increase of 40%. It’s the housing boom all over again and I feel like I missed out….again. Crap.

The cheery headlines in the news today, such as “Hiring revs up, bit it’s mostly part-time, low-pay” and “Here’s who’s really living with mom and dad,” prompted me to write an article proposing solutions in an ever increasing part-time worker economy. Notice the tongue-and-cheek reference to “cheery.”

I read a story on the NBCNews.com website of a 123-year-old man living in Bolivia. Of course, this got me thinking, “What if I live 40+ years past the age of retirement? Could my funds stretch that far?”