earns 1/2 of one percent of gross monetary amount involved. This gross runs from 2 million to five million annually. He owns a beautiful home in Kamakura, Japan, but comes back to the United States with his beautiful wife at least once a year. Could you do this? Probably not, unless you had the same training. Once again, I list this case history as one more of literally thousands of examples of an American using his American know-how abroad to guarantee him a much better way of life than he would otherwise have realized. CASE HISTORY No. 3. This doesn't exactly come under the head of retirement but Jerry Adams has also broken out of the rut that the overwhelming majority of us find ourselves in. The story is short but very sweet. Jerry works at the Shemya Air Base in the Northern Pacific and he works there under rather miserable conditions in the dead of winter. He's a bulldozer operator and since the climate at the Shemya base is so miserable and the base itself so far from "civilization" Jerry gets paid plenty. In fact, he makes $10,000 a month and better during the four months of the year that he works at all. This is enough in Japan to live mighty high on the hog. And for eight months of the year that is exactly what Jerry does. He returns to Japan where he has a Japanese wife, a Japanese house, and two American-Japanese children. Could you do something like this? Why not, if you are a construction worker? Not only in Japan, of course. There are such jobs in half the countries of the world. It's a matter of working like a dog for three or four months and living in absolute luxury for the rest of the year. Frankly, it's not my cup of tea—I object to even the three or four months of slavery—but perhaps you might look at it differently. Next: Chapter 17 - Here, There and the Other Place
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