| Many financial planners and long-term advisors have | | | | ready for that time in your life where you main |
| no clue as to what MECO is, even with all their | | | | engines are throttled back and your pay-checks stop |
| required on-going education and that's because it is | | | | coming in? If not you had better plan for it. You see |
| not an industry term. MECO is a NASA term and it | | | | once your income stops you will need to change a |
| means; Main Engine Cut Off (MECO). | | | | few things and you need to invest not only your |
| MECO is when the Space Shuttle hits escape velocity | | | | money now, but also consider investing some time in |
| and is past 17,000 miles per hour and the main | | | | deep thought, hopefully with an investment advisor |
| engines are cut off and the rocket is extinguish and | | | | of considerable ethics and knowledge to assist you. |
| the throttled engines are cut off. Then some thing | | | | Life is short, like the climb into orbit for the space |
| else happens, explosive charges automatically blow | | | | shuttle, NASA would never attempt anything like that |
| the bolts that connects the Shuttle to the enormous | | | | without proper pre-planning and neither should you. |
| empty fuel tanks and the shuttle keeps going and | | | | Please take my advice and consider where you are |
| the rockets fall back to Earth somewhere in the | | | | going, how long it will take to get their and plan |
| Indian Ocean usually. | | | | ahead for your MECO moment. |
| Now then, let us talk about your retirement, are you | | | | |