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The thing with this “work into your elder years” nonsense is that folks rarely stay with a company for a lifetime. The older you get, the harder it is to find a job that matches your previous income, much less your skill set. And if you’re in an industry where you do hard physical labor, too many
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Liz N Is Tired of the Nonsense
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… people CAN’T work into their 70s and 80s. People are more than what we contribute to the labor force. We deserve the rest we didn’t get when we were employed. We deserve to ease off and relax at some damn point.

I do consulting now, which gives me leeway to choose which jobs I want and at what…
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…pay, but three things will keep me working longer than I want to:
1) Covid: It hit our family hard and we paid tens of thousands of dollars of my mom’s hospital bills that weren’t covered by insurance.
2) Dad’s elder care: Although he had long-term care insurance, health insurance, and a…
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…retirement fund, it still wasn’t enough to cover all of his expenses, and not only did we pay for what he couldn’t, I had to greatly reduce my workload for four years to help care for him.
3) Husband’s employment: He was at his last job for 12 years, and was miserable. He took a different job that
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… was exhausting and was based on commission. He’s now in a job that he really likes, but at 2/3 the income he made at the evil company, and with no benefits. He’s about to turn 53, which places him outside of most companies’ hiring age WHETHER THEY WILL ADMIT IT OR NOT.

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…well beyond retirement age because we can no longer afford not to. And although neither of us is yet 60 years old, we are TIRED. This is not where I imagined myself at this age, even though we planned for rainy days and a restful retirement. Life threw too many curveballs for us to relax.
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The whole idea behind Social Security was so the elderly did not have to worry about working into their 70s, which at the time the program was created, was a standard thing and a death sentence to old people.
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