What more could I do?

That's really the big question for me. Will the company be here in 10 years?

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

We're both in pretty similar circumstances right now, ... We will be hungry - and I'm sure they will be, too.