10 years ago I was working in a job and had to deal with kids coming out of school and getting offers for crazy money from Dell, IBM, Motorola, AMD and others. I watched 24-26 year old people purchase homes that I could only dream about owning. I have to admit, it made me mad and it made me bitter. I made myself get over it.

5 years ago I was fired because they could get someone younger with more energy to fill my job for less money. I looked around and it was a bit scary. A guy on the wrong side of 40 trying to play a young man's game. No one would hire me so I took inventory of my competitive strengths and made a plan to leverage my great credit into loans and started my own business. It has worked very well for me and now all the loans are repaid and I live in a home that I could of only dreamed about 10 years ago.

Some would say I was lucky. This I will agree with. I also agree that I made a pledge to myself to never give up and to never quit.

What happened to that fellow was tragic. The jobs going to India was not tragic. It was our economic system working as it was designed to. What was tragic was that fellow giving up on life, giving up on himself and his family. He quit.