This is my first blog. I'm a middle aged white male, employed in an industry which has had crippling unemployment, and until a week ago thought I may be able to eke out a living and retire in about five or six years.
Until last week.
After a long day of "grinding deprivation" (attribute to Danger Mouse, the cartoon) at work, I receive news that financially was devastating. While not going into the details, a financial burden from a family member has put the possibility of retirement in my mid sixties on hold.
And here I thought there was light at the end of a long financial tunnel.
God really has a sense of humor. When we just begin to feel that at some time in the future I can relax and finish out my corporate tour of duty, he smacks me on the head with a two by four.
No financial security for me. I'm in the same sinking boat not only like some of my siblings, but like many millions of other Americans holding on to a log that is barely keeping me above water.
I had to laugh because I had determine a few days prior to go off of an anti-depressant. When I got the
"good news", I had to pass this on to the rest of my family.
So what is one to do?
My choices were and are bad to worst. Rob a bank, take a second job, leave everyone and hope my better half can find someone who can support her? Or maybe commit the sin of suicide? Hope that the insurance would assist my family and put me out of my misery.All of these thoughts ran through my mind in the first three days.
But there was some good news. By having this debt, I certainly didn't have to worry about "things" such as cars, boats, vacation homes, etc. If I aspired to an aesthetic life, here was my opportunity.
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