Work : Retired 1979 (Invested retirement into gold mine)
Financial : Bankruptcy 1980 (Scammed, no gold in mine)
European workaholic who made good money which he accumulated into a substantial nest egg by age 51. He enjoyed a few years of retirement until February of 1979 when a trusted friend persuaded him to invest all of his life-savings, $200,000, into a Northern California gold-mine venture. There was a mine but no gold was found and when the mine shut down in late 1980, he lost everything.