At 77 He Prepares Burgers Earning in Week His Former Hourly Wage

I applaud him for doing what he has to do. The rest of you guys have downz today?
 


His home is paid off, he has maybe $40k in savings, and gets $1800 per month tax free. That's what retirement is for most people, and shit with a paid off house it's not that bad comparatively.

He only really needs to work to fund his travel. I don't see this as such a sad story, seems fine to me. Not ideal, but what in life is?
 
While Palome worked hard his entire career, paid off his mortgage and put his kids through college, like most Americans he didn't save enough for retirement.
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I don't have kids, but if I did I would not sacrifice my retirement to "put my kids through college".

My parents co-signed for my student loans, but the payment books went to me, they were my loans to pay off, same for my siblings.

I seem to be in a minority in the USA with the opinion that paying for college is not the responsibility of parents.
 
So his children, whom he paid their college, won't chip in? LOL grateful kids they are.

This reads like a summary of The Millionaire Next Door
 
SirKonstantine said:
So his children, whom he paid their college, won't chip in? LOL grateful kids they are.
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He also moved into a trailer home, sold his "real" house, then gave his kids the profit from that too instead of saving it to help fund his retirement.

when an 800 square foot manufactured home he'd seen in Plant City, a Tampa suburb, became available for $21,500, he purchased it with a credit card to amass frequent flier miles. He then sold his New Jersey home for $180,000, kept what he needed to quickly pay off his credit card debt and divided the rest among his children so they'd have down payments for their own homes.

"The house was theirs as much as mine, and that's their inheritance from me," he said.
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