Swen Lorenz.
A selection of poems from Martial's twelve books of epigrams (the so-called Liber spectaculorum and the Xenia and Apophoreta are not included)..
About Me
All fun and no work?
On the outside, my life looks like all fun and no work.
Which is misleading. I work a lot, but I have made it my mission to live my life on my own terms:
- I run Me Inc., because if you work for someone else, youll only ever make money for someone else and never achieve a real degree of financial independence.
- Through a number of choices that I have made and worked hard for, my career is nowadays primarily managed from my laptop, which gives me strong control over how and where I spend my time.
- Instead of relying on government to provide for me in old age or ill-health, I have taken control of these important parts of life by finding and creating more reliable private solutions.
- Whereas I do some select work for a fee or salary, the majority of my time is spent on building and running my own projects and companies.
All in all, and after veering off into the wrong direction during some stages of my career, I now live a pretty awesome li