On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 00:07:54 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:

A guy I knew for 25 years, a retriever trainer with whom I've had lots of
business deals and who lived a few miles from here, so I've spent hours
training on his land and in his home BS-ing about our biz and people we
knew, is gone. He retired a couple years ago, crippled from years of hard
work and hard living. I guess the joys of the Golden Years got to be too
much, he stuck a gun to his own head and used it.

Word to the wise. If you're waiting until you can retire to start "really
enjoying life" you have been suckered in by a big Puritan "work ethic" lie
.... get out there NOW .... spend less of your life making money, then buy
fewer toys and use them more, that is the best suggestion for a "life plan"
I can offer.

Word.

But Fate is a Magic Trickster. The desire not to leave a brand new and growing
family for weeks on end kept me from being one of the first EMC² employees,
the choice which if taken would have resulted in my well-larded retirement ten
or even more years ago - had that been my own goal. Hell, a good friend who
was a facilities manager at EMC² retired 10 years ago at the tender age of 50
with a 7 figure stash. It would have been wired, but I doubt my family would
have survived intact while I was globe trotting (otoh, my friend was gay and
single. Some guys get all the breaks ;-)

/daytripper (But I'm not sure I'm ready to "Be Like Steve" yet, anyway ;-)