After making the tough choice of retiring from football, Steve Young co-founded the private equity firm HGGC and is now a successful venture capitalist. Here is an inspiring article on Steve Young’s transformation from a football player to venture capitalist on Bloomberg news. Please see link below.
As Lao Tse said, “Stretch to the very full and you will wish you stopped in time.” Unlike Steve Young, many professional athletes have chosen to keep going in spite of the warnings from their doctors. Some of them have ended up with permanent damages to their bodies and probably regretted their decision to stay on.
I see similar things happening in the high tech industry. Time to time I hear high tech workers and executives suddenly passed away or got some kind of illness such as cancer and stroke. As the high tech industry is moving at a fast pace, the work environment can be very stressful. Some of my friends have choose to retire early due to health problems. It is not because they do not want to work. They are better off not working than taking a risk. Read More...
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