After Losing My Job in Middle Age, I Rise to the Pinnacle of Life Again

A workplace veteran squeezed out by younger employees, with no hope of promotion;

A member of the sandwich generation, with elderly parents to care for and children to raise, and a marriage that has gone flat;

Declining stamina, fading passion, and a growing numbness toward life;

The “debts of middle age”: mortgage payments, car loans, children’s education, and care for elderly parents.

In middle age, he gets laid off and humiliated by his colleagues. His class reunion turns into a public shaming. Mocked as a “good-for-nothing” and put down in front of everyone, he reaches the depths of despair, only to receive a task: “Earn 500,000 in three months,” or face total destruction. How can the “impossible” become “possible”? Unlike a reckless youth, a middle-aged protagonist has years of social experience, an understanding of human relationships, and a sense of responsibility.

Using the tricks of a seasoned workplace veteran, he completes this seemingly impossible task and rises to the pinnacle of life!…

He uses the advantages of being a father to complete tasks involving the repair of parent-child relationships;

He uses his mature outlook to resist the temptations and dangers brought by the System.