As of now, I personally know of 4 men in my small circle of friends, all aged between 55-60, who have lost their jobs, just a few years after loosing a sizable portion of their retirement savings a few years back. They are slowly beginning to realized they’re never going to find jobs again, even if the economy improves. Among the unemployed are huge numbers of people like these who have been forced into early unfunded retirements.
The reality is that if you're in your fifties and aren't on the fast track to upper management, you're living on borrowed time. I found this out the hard way.
Yep, I know the feeling.
In retrospect we should all have gone to work for big banks, where you not only don't get punished for bad business and criminal acts, but are rewarded with bonuses and bailouts and sometimes loot right out of customer accounts.
...Then that means they missed the life lessons of the business world of the 1980’s.
This is America. America is not about ‘finding work.’ America is about making money, finding our own bootstraps, and pursuing our dreams.
You see...this is the core difference between Democrats and Republicans. Jobs in America have never been a finite resource, because Americans have always been able to pursue their dreams.
0bama and his ilk have killed that ability, but these men, those of us in this age group lived the turn around of the 1980’s. Sure we were young 20-somethings...but the age group of 55-60 then found themselves in the same position.
But...post Jimmy Carter and with a President with a vision for a renewed America...those men dared to pursue their dreams when society gave up on them. Us young folks...well we chased after them with those dreams.
WE know how to turn this around...the question is do we recall how they did it and did we learn anything from their tenacity?
“Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you’d think that the 1980s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They’re claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there.”
well make yourself a job, see what it is like to generate a buck without somebody else to bill for your hours........
If people are smart enough to get into an Ivy League scoop, they will continue their education. Most who get anEnglish degree go on to get a master’s and even a PHD. People can make money with any degree if they are hard workers.
Nice lethal combination of factors there. Some could start looking for a political savior. A leader.
Have them send me resumes and I’ll find them something. I’ve been a career counselor most of my life.
That is my ex-husband. It was part of what led to the end of my marriage because at the age of 51, he realized after giving 30 years to a textile mill that went to Brazil that he wasn’t going to barely be employed, much less earn a living. Retirement gone too.
It’s so sad. But it affected the entire tri-county area and he was one of many that was in his boat.