[Gorzaloon]

They couldn’t find a full time job and went on early Social Security to have a monthly income. This is probably one of the reasons Social Security this past month paid out more than it took in.

So these people are not in the stats as unemployed.

I am one of them, kind of. They closed my department the month I turned 62. I had a small business I was growing on the side for years, so I Shrugged, and have been working for myself since. The benfits are not great and the boss is a b@st@rd, but I should have done it twenty years sooner.

At least self-respect and being in charge of my own prosperity makes the Kraft Dinner taste better.

[Grampa Dave]

Good luck with your new life and freedom. Some of my wife’s patients who have gone the way you have re the 62 and SS are trying to start their own small businesses or expanding what they had going on the side.

Some are working as interns to learn new skills and set up new networks to help them.