For Conor and other interested parties - older workers having hard time finding decent-paying jobs
"But older workers are often left out of the employment boom."
"A lot of the jobs that older workers do get...involve a salary cut or a lack of benefits."
I discussed on another thread how expensive things were getting and it evolved into my personal situation, a low-income older worker. I was told (or at least I inferred) that I should be able to get a high-paying job with effort. Not so fast, my friend, as this article from CNN details the difficulties older and QUALIFIED workers face.
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/14/economy/working-past-retirement-age/index.html
Replies to: For Conor and other interested parties - older workers having hard time finding decent-paying jobs
It's selfish to live past 75.
At 76 I'm effectively a societal terrorist.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/26/scholar-zeke-emanuel-says-he-wants-to-die-at-75-heres-why-this-author-hopes-to-live/
This isn't new, is it?
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act has been around since 1967! This feels like one of those stories that news agencies dust off, update with new quotes and regurgitate ever other year like cleaning your gutters every Spring or changing your smoke alarm batteries every year.
This is not a unique story to these times. Doesn't help you with your particular situation but this isn't a new phenomenon.
Hang in there, man. Things will get better.
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Thanks. I wish I had done things differently.
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Conor only cares if you vote Democrat. If not, he will throw you to the wolves.
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Not counted as recommendation, just an idea. What about trying some government jobs?
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Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-administration-job-growth-numbers-175321823.html
They don't pay very well here in rural SC
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Where are you in SC? Anywhere near the military bases?
Ever consider driving for Amazon or another delivery service?
You may need to move to an area with more job opportunities.
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Being a male north of 50 is the worst thing someone can be these days.
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Make that a white male
Stale, pale and male. Oh for three
You've only got one choice...keep trying...and good luck to you, Mark.
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It is not easy. And the ageist posters on this board do not care.
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March or Die, Legionnaire.
Or, as my grandfather who drove a bread truck in Philadelphia always told us, “work is our heritage.”
You didn’t read Mark’s article. Your comment is ignorant.
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For a good 6 months now he’s totally hate driven. I feel bad for him
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Chris was once the most even-keeled person on this board. TDS is real and often debilitating.
I have a TDS sufferer in my family. She chose not to attend an event for a grandchild so she wouldn't miss the January 6 Commission Hearings. As a different relative commented after this decision, "It's sad that she puts Donald Trump ahead of her grandkids." And that's exactly what she did. Trump becomes the central organizing principle in their lives and TDS sufferers then engage in chronic catastrophizing. This renders them miserable. The world is always about to end tomorrow. No one can live contentedly like this. Add to this the fact that a far larger share of libs have been diagnosed with depression and mental illnesses, and also are less likely to have husbands (or wives) and children, don't attend church or believe in anything transcendent, and their misery is entirely predictable.
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So are BDS and Grievance Derangement Syndrome.
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That's just what the Democrats (anti-semites) at Columbia U were saying today
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