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Unemployed at 62, his plight may be a sign of the times (Barf alert!)
bostonherald ^
| 3-11-03
| Margery Eagan
Posted on 03/11/2003 11:40:19 AM PST by Jimmyclyde
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Unemployed at 62?
It's called retirement.
To: Jimmyclyde
Or it's called ...lost my hard earned responsibly saved retirement money (401K) in the stock market crashes starting in 1998 and have to go back to work (if you can find a job) or eat dog food.
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:43:48 AM PST
by
clamper1797
(Credo Quia Absurdum)
To: Jimmyclyde
He really expected to find another job at 62? Doesn't he know that most employers are NOT going to hire a 62 year old man or 59 year old woman for that matter. Most employers don't like to hire anyone over 50 unless they are CEO's. There is a real prejudice in the work force when it comes to hiring older people.
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:44:39 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
To: Jimmyclyde
Unemployed at 62? It's called retirement Nowadays, it's called still having several years before retirement. I figure I'm not gonna retire until I'm seventy-five, and will probably continue to work part-time after that - partially because Social Security and Medicare will be non-existent, and partially because my wife will kill me if I'm hanging around the house all day - she just about did that when I was unemployed for several months last year...
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:45:10 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(The Pentagon thinks they can create TIA when they can't even keep track of their own contractors)
To: Jimmyclyde
One word: MOVE
To: Jimmyclyde
$2,000 monthly rent Lots of good apartments in the Detroit suburbs for $500 to $800 a month. I think they could afford that much on far less than $50K a year.
To: clamper1797
How can you lose money you never had?
To: Jimmyclyde
Meanwhile, he says, not a single politician has called.It ain't the Gov'ts job to find you employment, you dumbass.
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:46:25 AM PST
by
TomServo
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Three words: Paper or plastic?
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:46:52 AM PST
by
JIM O
To: Jimmyclyde
I would hope he saved for retirement out of a 65K salary, but you never know, (ant and grasshopper)
Given that I like teaching and know Florida, Alabama, and Texas have teacher shortages, I would consider selling out, moving to the south and finding a more modest lifestyle and a teaching job paying abut half of what he had.
To: Jimmyclyde
It appears that middle-management was not a great career choice for anybody.
To: JIM O
ROTFLMAO
To: Jimmyclyde
I have some names for you:
Phineas Taylor ("P.T.") Barnum. Broke, knocked around creating various animal shows until age 70 when he teamed with the Ringling Bros. to START his circus.
Lydia Pinkham, unemployed 60-year-old housewife with a husband in a wheelchair and two teenage boys. Started selling her "vegetable compound" and it took off, making her a millionaire at age 70.
C. W. Post---a "youngster"---was only in his early 50s, but unemployed and ill. He went to Battle Creek Michigan to the Kellogg sanitarium, where he tinkered with a new cereal that tasted like, well, "grape nuts," even though there were no grapes and no nuts in it. Of course, he became a millionaire with Post cereals.
Oh, and Paul Revere. He was 70, and hardly unemployed, having had a thriving copper business, but he was only looking at expansion, creating the first integrated copper rolling mill in the country.
Unemployed? Look at it as an opportunity for greatness.
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:50:23 AM PST
by
LS
To: Larry Lucido
WHY DO PEOPLE RENT?
I just don't understand why people rent? Unless you are starting out or starting over I don't understand why people don't invest in real estate. Once it's paid off you can't be evicted as long as you pay your property taxes.
Especially at his age?
Clue me in please?
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:51:10 AM PST
by
TSgt
(“If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.” - General George S. Patton)
To: Jimmyclyde
Economic downturns suck. What are you gonna do? It's the nature of economics. All good news all the time is fantasyland.
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:51:26 AM PST
by
dead
To: KC_for_Freedom
this guy has to be a dim bulb if he spends his time with a sign on the street.
To: Jimmyclyde
Where in the article does it say he had or did not have a retirement fund ... you assume to much
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:51:55 AM PST
by
clamper1797
(Credo Quia Absurdum)
To: Jimmyclyde
I cannot stand these fraudulent stories. As if this country were freakin Pompeii......how about selling real estate, how about working for a temp agency(their is a shortage of claim people out there), etc, etc.
This dude sat on his arse too long collecting his mediocre pay and forgot how to work.
To: KC_for_Freedom
I don't understand why there is no sympathy for this man on this thread. Can't any of you put yourselves in his place? I read about him in the Wall Street Journal last week and I really felt for him and his wife. So he was making $65,000 per year? He was also raising three children to adulthood and that probably took most of his earnings. The one thing I didn't understand was the $2,000 per month rent. I wondered why they didn't own a home. The main thing brought home to me by the article in the WSF is the age bigotry that exists. It actually begins when people are in their 40's and gets progressively worse. Now that STINKS.
To: Jimmyclyde
If he is 62 years old and was making $65 thousand a year before he was laid off and can't afford to retire, he has lived his life as an irresponsible idiot. He will just have to learn something that he should have learned and practiced a long time ago: Live within his means.
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posted on
03/11/2003 11:54:12 AM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Improve New York City-turn the UN site into a toxic waste dump.)
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