By Bruce Horovitz In his view, Tim Franson utterly failed at retirement. After 20 years as a high-ranking vice president at drugmaker Eli Lilly, Franson and his wife, Chris, a successful real estate agent, thought they were quietly retiring nearly a decade ago to Bonita Springs, Fla. For the first month or so, Franson said, he mostly slept. He wasnât depressed, just mentally and physically exhausted. Then, âI went crazy,â said Franson. âIâm not very good at sitting around.â He quickly found himself back at work part-time after a friend at a small pharmaceutical company asked him for strategic advice. âThings snowballed from there.â Today,...
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