Laid off

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Hmmm, that's an interesting idea. I could just roll up to the casino tomorrow and see if I could turn 4 months severance into 40 year's worth.

I recently read a book about a guy in the 17th century who became a pirate. Working as a regular ship crew paid a decent wage, but if you became a pirate and hit on a big ship, you could make 10 to 40 years of wages on one voyage. This fellow did that and hit on a huge treasure ship. He got his share of the loot, burned his pirate ship, and then went back to England, never to be seen again. So maybe consider piracy.