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The Retirement Newsletter: “Knitting” without wool during your retirement — hobby or side-hustle?
Welcome
Welcome to issue -76 — “Knitting” during your retirement — hobby or side-hustle?
Well, this issue is not about knitting, as I don’t knit; it is about the act of ‘knitting’.
Read on to find out more and whether you are a ‘knitter’ and don’t even know it.
What is ‘knitting’ in retirement?
To me, ‘knitting’ is not necessarily knitting — as in knitting with wool.
‘Knitting’ is a hobby or something you do that keeps you busy and active during your retirement. Something you might do to relax or have fun. And, it could be anything. It could even be knitting.
My ‘knitting’ is programming computers. It seems odd, I know, but I enjoy writing code and getting computers to do things. I find coding relaxing, and I get a buzz out of solving the problem and getting the computer to do something.
Over the years, I have used my ‘knitting’ skills to write programs for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad. None of these programs made a lot of money. My coding was not…
