It was a quick job to sharpen the original retirement plan from a nebulous mass of “coulds” and “maybes” and “wishes” into a bulleted and indented plan worthy of MS Project.

Some research was required involved around how to establish the creds for teaching English. My fundamental idea was that an English Teaching certification would be the foot-in-the-door, but that my resume with too-many-years-to-mention hands-up-to-elbows American-accented tech experience was the piece de resistance, the cred de la cred… for the type of clientele I wanted to attract.

So I bulleted and indented and plotted… and in a JAD session with my friend Kathy and her friend Jose Cuervo-Especial, I set some target dates down in pixels and toner. And my plan was off to the races!