I got laid off FIVE times after being with one company 22 years. I decided to take some additional personal risk and go for bigger rewards, so I joined a succession of smaller and medium size younger companies. Most startups don't make it and I have a knack of choosing them.
I learned resilience and tenacity. When you get laid off, you exercise your network and find new work. You constantly keep your skills up to date and learn new things. Always be ready to begin job searching again.
If you are lazy, poorly educated, and not too bright, you might wind up in a camper. Life has never been easy. These liberal writers seem to think everybody is owed a cushy lifestyle for little effort or output. Sorry, life doesn't work that way.
“If you are lazy, poorly educated, and not too bright, you might wind up in a camper. “
I actually find the idea quite romantic. Even for those of us with means.
If you are lazy, poorly educated, and not too bright, you might wind up in a camper.
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Or if a chronic debilitating disease like rheumatoid arthritis or COPD (and YOU NEVER smoked) claims you, or if you have an accident that destroys your coordination or causes you to become a paraplegic or quadriplegic, or if you have happen to be susceptible to clots and couple lodge in your brain or central retinal artery and you are blind or mute...Then even a camper isn’t an option.
So then society or your kids put you into a home for the AGED and that’s that, buddy.
I just really resent how smug some of you are. Many people are not responsible for what happens to them and the consequences of that “happening”.
The trouble is we no longer have locally extended families unlike many other families in foreign countries so our elderly spend their last day alone, lonely without transportation they can afford often in food deserts....so it goes. I weep for them. And can do nothing for them.