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? Jim Sadsack had a high school education, spent a couple of years in the army, then looked around for a job. He had no particular training so he wound up wrapping packages in the Army Supply Depot in Topeka. It wasn't a bad job, as civil service jobs go. After a while he'd worked up to the point where he had about $350 take home pay a week. That was no great amount, prices being what they are, so Jim picked up additional money by |
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