My Ex-Manager Retired Happy at 58. He Was [Unexpectedly] Crushed by a Good Life.
Life is strange
This is another one of those.
I call them the anti-happy retirees. Sounds weird? Yes. Just like anti-heroes in comics, they aren’t the genuine bad guys.
But they have a different mode of thinking that made them non-baddies, non-heroes.
William is one of those anti-happy retirees.
He should be happy. He should. William spent decades planning for his retirement and [actually] had the money to do so by 58. This should be a happy ever after.
Life, however, threw a carton of Lemonade Twists at him.
Well.
William had 2 plans for retirement
The first one is a money plan.
This plan got him through decades of painful spending below his means, saving above his means, and riding the stock market even when Big Market Bears popped by for a visit.
According to William, this plan was dutifully executed for 22 [long] years.
Goodness me. This guy is tough.
I worked with William for a short 2 years. It never came across to me that he is that dogged. And tough. People do have…
