April 17, 2023

No Free Ride, the Importance of Family, Retired at 55.

 

LIT Episode 1.  Tim LaBlanc is the father of the Life In Twenty Podcast host Paul and the grandfather (“Papa”) of co-hosts Carsyn and McCoy.  In this interview, Tim talks about coming from a split home, growing up in the Rainier Valley of Seattle, what it was like sharing a house with 8 others, three to a bedroom, with one bathroom.  Tim didn’t like  bookkeeping as a career because of the suit and tie, so he joined the Seattle School District as a gardener making $2/hr, earned his boiler license which gave him the engineer qualifications needed to move from janitor to head custodian of a Seattle high school where he retired at just 55 with a nice pension.  Tim has been married 50+ years, never owned a driver’s license, driven a scooter for 50+ years, is a mathematical genius, pro horserace handicapper, and gambling pioneer.  In this podcast you’ll learn how he collected Apple IIe’s in the early 80’s and started a programming schools as a custodian, changed his life score from a 50 to a 75 by retiring early, the importance of family, working hard for everything you get, not worrying about the things you can’t control and so much more….

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