Luis Bautista, 82, lives in Tucson, Arizona, and works as a personal life coach and tech startup cofounder, doing tasks such as prompt engineering. He keeps working because money is tight and because he chooses to remain active, saying he would not retire even if finances were adequate. He grew up poor in Chicago but had basic needs met. He began a career as a jazz drummer at 15, served in the Army during the Vietnam War and struggled on return, then retrained as a massage therapist in 1974 and later became a relaxation consultant and strategic advisor.
I grew up in a poor family in Chicago. My mom and dad had a hard life, and yet we had a roof over our heads. We always had clean clothes, we had food, and we went to school. I've worked different jobs, and I'm now a strategic advisor for a startup, but I have barely any money saved. I live paycheck to paycheck.
I started playing when I was 15, and by the time I was 17, I was working full-time. I played weddings and whatever came across my desk. I did that for 15 years. It was a hard profession with lots of drinking and traveling, and you really don't make a lot of money. I was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, and when I came back from that, I was depressed and hopeless.
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