Check out this story from abcnews, featuring a man using his airline points to live in motel rooms while unemployed. He went from a high-flying (pun not intended, but it works) executive to a man without a permanent home who used motel rooms as his shelter. What a nomadic existence this guy had.
More than that, this is an example of a guy who literally lived off an asset that he squirreled away for a rainy day. And that asset wasn’t even cash. Very creative indeed.
He showed further creativity in publicizing himself and his situation, which has landed him a job as CEO of a company!
What do you think about this? Inspirational? Crazy? Motivating?
I saw this guy in a Yahoo Finance article a couple of months ago! I can’t believe he landed a CEO position, that’s great!
I think he’s crazy but he used an asset some people may have forgotten, so that was smart.
Yes, good for him that he got that job. Smart for using those miles, though I wonder if he was really that broke that he had to use mileage. Seems hard to imagine that someone who is CEO material, and was in a prior job that required travel which gave him 1 million miles, could be truly “homeless”. In any event, its an interesting story, and he did make smart use of those miles!