One of the aspects of commercial real estate that I particularly enjoy is that you can buy a property, have some rudimentary management in place, and then all but forget about it. In fact, you could take a six-month cruise and not worry on a day-to-day basis whether everything is all right. If you need more nail-biting, nerve-racking excitement than that, then trade stocks, where you generally have to monitor the market by the day; or trade options, where you have to monitor the market by the hour; or trade futures, where you have to monitor the market by the minute; or trade currencies or other derivatives, where you have to monitor the market by the second.

Also take note that you will not find many stock traders over 50, many options traders over 40, many currency traders over 30, or many futures traders over 25. These nail-biting, glued-toyour-screen professions burn people out. They also require that their practitioners complete another deal to earn another dollar of income.

Meanwhile, back on your cruise boat, you are reading books or mingling with people, knowing that your tenants will pay rent that month whether you have worked or not.