Posted on 06/07/2013 1:20:01 PM PDT by Nachum
In the latest installment of another long-running series, we look at the age bracket distribution of those who are lucky enough to get new jobs each month, versus those who aren't. It should come as no surprise that once more the majority of new jobs created in the month of May went to the oldest age-group cohort, those 55 and older, which saw an increase of 203,000 jobs in May, more than every other age group bracket. The result: with an all time high 31,488,000 workers aged 55-69, Americans are far more busy working in their older years than retiring (or gambling in the rigger stock market casino).
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The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
You’ve got to pick a pocket or two...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HazQlWgdzg
Hand raised.
1) They can’t afford to retire
2) Work ethics of the under-30 yutes are sucky
Thanks, I feel better. Well said, my friend.
Well yeah. A lot of us will never stop working. When we do, we die.
On top of that the younger folks don’t have the simple skills those of us who grew up when men were men and women were women knew instinctively.
Question often posed to wife and now adult kids: “What are you going to do when I’m dead?”
Can they repair a car, do plumbing, patch a roof, wire a home, build a radio (especially with nothing more than a razor blade and some wire), husband resources, split wood to provide heat, break their bodies to provide for people they love?
What will they do?
So far no answer...sigh.
Captain double-dip here. pension + 1.8x what they were paying me when I was their “wage slave”. Life is good
While the millenials are busy Occupying Wall Street, the boomers are available to occupy a desk or a machine tool. And we have the skillz to do so.
>> Can they repair a car, do plumbing, patch a roof, wire a home, build a radio (especially with nothing more than a razor blade and some wire), husband resources, split wood to provide heat, break their bodies to provide for people they love?
Well, no... but they can text with one thumb and play at level 1000 in World of Whorecraft... at the same time!
And the BEST of them can do it while driving a Prius. ;-)
Exactly correct. Employability and NEEDED skills to go with it. Skills kept from today’s utes and utettes.
Still working at 78 although I’m down to 50 hours a week, and can’t keep up with the work. When an elderly man in Mass. gets a call to (*******) for a man in Kansas something has really gone wrong.
It does no good to have no skills combined with knowledge that no one has any use for.
Meanwhile the 18-29 xgens who voted for the Obastard in the WH are still living at home, owe tons of $$$$ in student loans and couldn’t exist on krations if their lives depended on it (which they might in the not too distant future)>
Well, the question goes to you: Why didn’t you teach them the skills you possess? Or, were you so possessive that nobody around you could perform a task to your satisfaction, so you always took over and finished it yourself?
I’m describing MY husband here.
Xbox, sexting, smoking weed, and sleeping does not equate to a marketable skill.
I tried! That opens a whole new rant. Hold the flashlight. Get me a phillips screwdriver. No. They couldn’t do that. They wanted to be under the car doing things they thought they could do.
Kind of like the people who used to pay me to get them on the internet so they could put up web pages to sell things and make tons of money.
Of course after a I got them on the web and made their page they wanted me to do the content. They couldn’t.
It has to start with need and desire. When I grew up and wanted a radio or go kart or whatever we figured out how to do it. Didn’t always work but we learned.
Second part. Here...you change the tire. I showed you how, you have the tools. Then they crossthread a lug. Warned them but they have little if any mechanical apptitude.
Now I have to replace the wheel stud. If they did it I’d have to replace the entire front suspension.
It goes back to not having the need/desire to do it themselves.
Once mrs p6 wanted me to let her split wood. She could do anything a man could do., or so her leftist teachers told her.
Against my better judgement I showed her how. She practiced...she almost killed herself when the maul kicked back.
Never tried again.
I bet the number of people on social security “disability” is a lot higher.
I resemble that remark.
Unfortunately I’m NOT working now.
I guess we’re still the maker generation. We’ll be makin’ it until we die.
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