I would think if you had some sort of skills and education, you could get better jobs than this.
I am a well-off retiree, but if I needed to work and make money, I would get an EA and do tax returns, or something along those lines.
Kind of a pompous and smug comment, IMHO. I don’t know anything about any of these people and neither do you. So, there’s no reason to look down your nose at them. You don’t know how they ended up doing what they’re doing. Maybe they had an illness and the bills crushed them. Who the hell are you to judge them.
And I’m sure you worked hard and did what you had to do to be a “well off retiree”. Bravo. Good for you.
What about a guy that works his whole life, saves, does the right thing and then, WHAM, the company he’s worked for, for 30 years declares bankruptcy and he gets sh*t. Oh yeah, he’s just going to go right back to vocational school or get an accounting degree, at 50 or 60 years old, because it’s that easy.
Isn’t that what happened to the Delphi employees when obama was in office and his deal with the unions?
And, I would think getting an, EA(whatever that is) and doing taxes, probably isn’t the best option these days, with things like TurboTax, HRBlock and the Presidents push to simplify the tax code to make it easier for people to do their taxes. So, you go right ahead and do that.
I’m thinking that if they are getting less than $1000 a month they were very low wage earners throughout their career
Yep, numbers don’t lie.
Money wise, planning for retirement is all about the numbers.
I would think if you had some sort of skills and education, you could get better jobs than this.
You sound like the sort of person who prepared well for their golden years. Many don't, and are forced to seek progressively lower paying, more demeaning work, as they age.
It's just a fact. Older people are routinely discriminated against in the workplace.
I would get an EA and do tax returns,