|
How To Retire Without Money
By Bob Belmont
CHAPTER 3
WHEN TO RETIRE
Page 3 of 7
But mark the
sections that apply to you. Perhaps there are only two or
three that fit all of your requirements but, if so, there will
be many others that will give you ideas which you can possibly
develop.
Each reader
of this book is an individual, and each has his own particular
problems, so obviously there is no set blueprint for all. Each
must adapt what I have to say to his own circumstances.
Read this
book through thoroughly, then go over and over those case
histories that apply to your age group, your sex, your marital
status, your desire or lack of desire to travel, your climatic
or scenic wants. Start to work thinking about them.
In the
concluding chapter of the book you'll find various government
publications, and other reading material recommended. By all
means send for those that apply to you. Above all, we do not
recommend that you go off half-cocked. Start with a cold
determination that you are going to do it and then plan it
well.
Nothing in
this book is of more importance than that which I have just
said in the past few pages. Right now, I suggest that you
start back again at the beginning of this chapter and reread
it. If this determination that we recommend doesn't seize you,
then you may never retire in the manner which I can prove is
possible.
As you have
probably already noted I have filled this volume with many
case histories, as I call them, of people who have actually
done what we recommend, who have made their breaks and are
currently living a free, comfortable and happy life. All of
these examples are true and almost all of them have the
correct names of the individuals involved. A few times we've
substituted names and once or twice even changed localities
for various reasons which we always explain. But all of our
case histories are true.
Except one, and it follows. It's a fictional case history but
you can put your own name on it if you wish. We hope you
don't wish.
§
CASE HISTORY
Jim Sadsack was 25 years of age and increasingly of late was
coming to the uncomfortable conclusion that life had gone sour
some way or another. He couldn't exactly put his finger on any
one thing but he wasn't getting the fun out of existence that
should have been there. He had a flock of things to be bitter
about, but he couldn't see that he was much worse off than his
friends, neighbors and relatives, so what was his beef?
>>> CHAPTER 3
WHEN TO RETIRE Page 4
|
