Tech guy gets fired at 58 after 35 years in tech, and instead of panicking, sees it as a chance to retire early, do DIY, and work part-time at a hardware store:... (opens in new tab)

Getting fired at 58 after 20 years at the same company should feel like a crisis. For this guy, it mostly feels like a long-overdue exitAnd fter 35 years of sitting through meetings that could have been emails, writing performance reviews for goals nobody actually believed in, and pretending that quarterly metrics represented something meaningful about human existence, the universe finally did this man the courtesy of firing him, and somewhere in the severance paperwork, tucked between the CO...