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17th April 2024 Issue no. 701

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The retirement plan that paid off earlier than expected

By Mike Nixon, Tri-Parish Times

Mark Avet thought it was a smart move when he was 41 to include residential and business locks to his skills list - just to have something to fall back on when he reached retirement age. Expectation for retirement, however, came a decade earlier than anticipated for Avet, when in 2009 the financially strapped US auto industry cut thousands of workers by closing plants and shuttering dealerships across the country. Fortunately for this locksmith he was not shut out of a career.

The plan worked - although not in a manner originally intended - and Avet's locksmith efforts quickly grew into being a real job.

"When I started in the car business in 1974, one of the first things I had to do was make key cylinders," he said. "So, I've basically been doing this all my life."

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