It takes a lot more than that now. I did everything in my power we were told we should do to succeed. Financially, I did not succeed.

I was hit by some bad luck, in that my industry imploded right at an age when it's pretty hard to convince another industry to take a chance on you. If I'd been able to maintain the $40K I was making as a newspaper editor in 2015, I'd be quite comfortable now. Instead, I scratch for freelance work.