I realize a lot of people need help more than I do. Small things will make big changes in their lives. What I am asking for is huge and likely too much for anyone to be able to give. But I’ll post it anyway. Instead of money, maybe someone will have some ideas for me.
I’ve been and done a lot of things in my life.
Youngest mechanic Pacific Airlines ever hired (at 18)
Served in the Navy on a flight crew in Viet Nam
Flew UAVs in Afghanistan 2006-2007 supporting our troops
Started businesses:
Mantra Studios in the 70s where Windham Hill Records started
Generator Wizards and CD Wizard in Hawaii in the 80s
TechShop RDU in 2008)
Had jobs (too many to list)
Got married had kids.
All the usual stuff and some not so usual.
Right now I’m delivering packages for the USPS.
I turned 80 in January (Eighty!!!) but am in pretty good shape for my age and my goal is to go another 25 years. My wife, however, is having some problems. But that’s not why I’m writing. Well, okay partly it is.
Retirement is not about age, it’s about money. And while I did well with many of my jobs and businesses, I did poorly at preparing for the future.
I had it all figured out with Bitcoin and actually had over 3 Bitcoin back in 2017, but I borrowed against it to fund some business ideas. This would have been great, but I put it all up as collateral and when the price tanked in 2018 I was unable to add more collateral and they sold off a bunch of it to cover the loan. Then when FTX went down, it took Cryptopia with it and I was only able to retrieve about $1500 or so. The rest, gone.
So then I found a company that would help me get 0% interest credit cards, but more importantly, supply me with some awesome business ideas. Getting the cards went flawlessly. However, all the business ideas did not. So I wound up with over $60,000 in credit card debt and no income from it. My over 800 credit score went into the 500s. Another idea from them went like this. They would help me get a car loan and they would buy an exotic car that would be rented out and provide me with monthly income. $75,000 car loan approved… sent the check off to receive…no car, no income. Been fighting them for over a year now. So I’m looking at over $100,000 of debt right now and no way to pay it off.
I have learned how, through trial and error, exactly how to be able to retire off of Bitcoin. Problem is I don’t have enough. Another .4 BTC (just over $40,000) would allow me to retire in about 5 years. But I would like to be able to spend more time with my wife now and not have to work so much. In order to do that now, I would need about another 4 full BTC ($400,000). I would love to be able to borrow that amount, buy the Bitcoin and pay it all back. But of course, to borrow, you need to not need it. In other words, you need to have enough already to pay it back. And by the way, I would also love to help anyone set this up for themselves. Learn from my mistakes and do it right. It will work. Period.
This leads me to the question, “Why would anyone want to give me that much help anyway?” I come from a generation that always believed that you take care of yourself. You don’t ask anyone for anything. But I found this site and figure it won’t hurt to ask.
More importantly, I would also be highly interested in any venture that does not cost up front big money, but will provide some residual income. I’d actually RATHER get that kind of help, but will certainly accept any help offered at this point.
Here’s a BTC only address if anyone wants to send me something this way:
3KLm9foe9qsKVTPjtWNXgx8jKDYLSfJeAb
And here’s my CashApp address:
$ScSax