Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Not what you would hope for
I started working when I was 13, quite High School, lied about my age and cooked on a Lobster Smack. From there, I went back to high school, on a Liberty Ship, the John W. Brown, from there to college, got a Merchant Marine license and a commission in the Naval Reserve. Went to sea for 12 years, came home started a business, got married, we had a son, got divorced then went to work for the government. So, after 57 years of work I finally retired and had some money set aside in a Thrift Savings Plan. During the last few years, I hosted four foreign students. I had bought a house closer to work and there I hosted my last student. My son was away and when my student went back home, I had an empty house So, with three bedrooms in a big house, I advertised for someone to rent a room. I took in a student from a Canadian university who was working on a plan to establish a computer gaming network. This sounded like a good deal and so I thought that there would be a life after retirement. I ended up broke, nada, credit cards in my name were maxed out, bank account wiped out and a bunch of people complaining that I had cheated them on eBay. This was retiremen? Certainly not what I hoped for.
# posted by VonKrogh @ 2/22/2006 06:28:00 PM 
