Government policies are destoying people's lives, but our elected officials don't give a rat's whisker. They have almost guaranteed lifetime employment with generous benefits.
What a bunch of immoral tools.
"These men (government officials), in point of fact, are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street-walkers." ~ H.L. Mencken
Sure, people over fifty, so feeble and decrepit, are just going to slouch in thier hovels and count the moments until they die, 20,30,40,50 years later.
Does the times fire everyone who's past puberty?
A good reason to be self employed if you can find a profession in which to practice. You may not get as many clients as you want, but you will not be unemployed.
oh, let’s not forget the “marginalizing the mature” alert.
I’m 57. If it weren’t for the fact that I’ve got my own small business, I’d be out in the cold without a prayer. Things are very tough for us right now, but somehow, we’re managing.
Had I not taken the risk to start my own business in my mid-forties, I’d be at even greater risk now.
That’s where I am, sort of. Majorly underemployed and feeling trapped. Not sure where to go.
ObamaCare is going down.I forsee that if it doesn’t, blood will run in the streets. I won’t say whose blood, but I suggest that the ones who authored this abomination will not get away unscathed.
Older Americans will not just sit there and allow themselves to be attritted by lack of opportunities to work.
Well, thank you, New York Times, for this said story, which is now all too common.
Do you understand that you, and the rest of the left-wing media, are largely responsible for this miserable economic decline? This is what you at the New York Times have been working for, since the days when you were busy sticking up for Uncle Joe Stalin, and Fidel Castro, and Mass Murderer Chairman Mao, and all those union bosses and Democrat politicians who have brought us to this state.
How’s that Hopey Changey?
I’m 50 and a disabled veteran and just went back to work as a recruiter for a mortgage bank. We hire people 18-70+ who call potential borrowers from a home office and facilitate loans. Is it rough in this economy? Sure, but what isn’t? Is it hard to learn to do this? No harder than most jobs, and it has the potential to pay better than many. No job is for everybody, but people over 50, the long-term unemployed, the disabled and stay-at-home parents might want to look at positions like this.
If you’re over 50 in today’s America, and lose your job/career....
For the most part, you’re screwed.....Done....
Take a look at what jobs are going to be hot in 10 years and retrain is one option. The second option is to start your own business. And so on .....
You better believe it --> PACT Act, effective July 1, 2010, put hundreds of Internet cigarette venders and their staffs out of work.
Repercussions from this: postal workers are now sitting on their butts while still getting paid.
Latest ... New York State just told the Indian business owners that they MUST collect the $4.35 per pack tax from ALL non-Indians. Same thing happened in Rhode Island.
You better believe it --> PACT Act, effective July 1, 2010, put hundreds of Internet cigarette venders and their staffs out of work.
Repercussions from this: postal workers are now sitting on their butts while still getting paid.
Latest ... New York State just told the Indian business owners that they MUST collect the $4.35 per pack tax from ALL non-Indians. Same thing happened in Rhode Island.
I can relate. I am also 57 and was laid off from Wells Fargo Auto Finance along with the whole division in Dec 2008. I have applied for 100’s of jobs, interview for many. No one is interested. I was at the very top of my profession. Does not matter. No one cares. I am not requesting pity I am just saying I understand. Never in my wildest imagination could I see myself in this position. 22 months and NO prospects.
The American dream is just that for most today....
The young people? They don't have a chance in this meat grinder. They'll spend their days wondering if they'll eat or have a roof over their head each month.
That would explain Lisa Murkwoski.
You mean, these 50somethings can’t even find employment at Walmart? I call bs.
This is news ?
Just how out of touch are they to only cover this now ?
Although I've survived with this company for 33 1/2 years so far, I get the feeling it's only a matter of time until I'm out the door. At that point, I don't have a clue what I'll do. There are laws against age discrimination, but no one follows them, and no one enforces them.
I've thought of starting my own business. I don't have capital to invest in starting a business unless I empty my retirement accounts - and I won't do that. That means that, at the age of 56 (or 57 or whenever I get laid off), I'd be trying to get a loan for a risky enterprise.
Makes me tired just thinking about it.
Maybe I'll just "retire" and supplement my income with a job as a WalMart greeter or something.
I am not worried ... I refuse to buy Obama Care and I will not pay the fine either so everything I own will be confiscated by the Gooberment anyway.
It’s a good thing I can Scuba dive... so I can retrieve all of my firearms that I lost in that horrible boating accident (so that I can live off the land).
TT
57 and have a practice...and this ain’t no guarantee too. Competition and my health are giving me problems. I can’t sell my practice like I had wished so that option for retirement is fading with the economy.