This is sanctimonious and insulting. I am glad you have such god ideas about how I should live. Now, will you set me up with a Mexican fishing boat and give me about 15 years lessons in fishing, plus providing Mexican national health insurance and pensions and state-subsidized educations for my kids? I didn't drift into my line of work. I considered voluntray poverty and its costs. Btw, my wife the schoolteacher? Works longer hours than me for a sixth of the pay. jks
--- martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
> From: Bill Stebbins
> Subject: Retirement The Hard Way
>
> A business consultant was at a pier in a small
> coastal Mexican village
> when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
> Inside the small
> boat were several large yellow-fin tuna. The
> business consultant
> complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish
> and asked how long
> it took to catch them.
>
> The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."
>
> The consultant then asked why didn't he stay out
> longer and catch more
> fish?
>
> The Mexican said he had enough to support his
> family's immediate needs.
>
> The consultant then asked the Mexican how he spent
> the rest of his time.
>
> The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a
> little, play with my
> children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll
> into the village each
> evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my
> amigos. I have a full
> and busy life, senor."
>
> The consultant scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and
> could help you. You
> should spend more time fishing and, with the
> proceeds, buy a bigger
> boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you
> could buy several
> boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing
> boats. Instead of
> selling your catch to a middleman you would sell
> directly to the
> processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You
> would control the
> product, processing and distribution. You would
> need to leave this
> small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico
> City, then LA and
> eventually NYC where you will run your expanding
> enterprise."
>
> The Mexican fisherman asked, "But senor, how long
> will this all take?"
>
> The consultant replied, "15-20 years."
>
> "But what then, senor?" asked the Mexican.
>
> The consultant laughed, and said, "That's the best
> part! When the time
> is right, you would announce an IPO and sell your
> company stock to the
> public. You'll become very rich, you would make
> millions!"
>
> "Millions, senor?" replied the Mexican. "Then what?"
>
> The consultant said, "Then you would retire. Move to
> a small coastal
> fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a
> little, play with
> your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the
> village in the
> evenings where you could sip wine and play your
> guitar with your
> amigos."
>
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/bs16
>
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