donheff
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+1.This seems to be a usage of the phrase "want to leave" with which I was heretofore unfamiliar.
+1.This seems to be a usage of the phrase "want to leave" with which I was heretofore unfamiliar.
This article is just one more piece of stupidity feeding the endless desire for Americans to be told what's up.
No sane employer would employ 75 year olds in preference to 25 year olds. Therefore, for this to happen it must be made impossible to fire an older person.
Therefore yonger people will not find jobs, will not be able to set up households, get married, have children or to grow up in any normal way.
Now will they just meekly go along, or will they do what frustrated youth have always done and seek a political solution?
I know which path I would have taken, and I feel confident that the young people of today and tomorrow are no more passive victims than we were.
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DW and I are parting very amicably. (In fact we're still living together, and probably will for a while, for several reasons.) We haven't finalized the legalities but our current working plan is that we've split all our liquid assets 50/50. There will be no alimony because she generally made more than I did. We have our house (paid off) and two rental houses (one paid off). At first she insisted rentals were all hers (long story, connected to her making more $$) but she has since given up on that stance and we'll be splitting the houses 50/50 too. We'll also split child expenses equally. We've already started telling the boys they don't get a free ride in college from us, but I expect we'll help them some.
I have no pension or health care except eventually SS/Medicare. My IRAs and my half of the real estate puts me up around $600k, but I have to live in some of that real estate. I expect to eventually inherit about $200-300k from my mother, which will definitely help. So I think I'll be OK once the boys are out of college, but that's 8-10 years away.
Maybe I shouldn't hang out around here. I was resigned to w*rking another 10 years, but after reading some of the stories here I'm getting less and less happy with the idea...
Wound, meet salt.....This is totally depressing reading. Thank God for my husband having a govt. pension (Joint and survivor), plus we both will have SS and savings. Without the pension, it would be much harder.
My DS is in the category that would need to work until age 76. He dropped out of college years ago, is 33 yrs old and earns $10.50 per hour. He is not saving anything that I know of, of course there would not be much to save. You have to live.
I was at Belk's at the mall today and was taken aback at two older ladies who were working there. The one lady looked to be in her late 70's, at least.
There will be no alimony because she generally made more than I did.
If he's living on $10.50/hr then he should be able to live on full SS at age 67, shouldn't he? Why continue working longer than that?
$10.50/ hr is $21,840/yr and if that were the average lifetime indexed yearly earnings it would earn $12,201.84/yr in SS. is that what you mean by "full SS"?
No sane employer would employ 75 year olds in preference to 25 year olds. Therefore, for this to happen it must be made impossible to fire an older person.
I have to disagree. I work at a place where we have people in their 70's, lots of them, and they want to leave, but the company won't lay them off because they don't want to pay them their severance packages. So we lay of the younger folks, who have families to feed and support, and let the old timers sit around and watch TV and play crosswords while collecting full social security and pensions from other jobs. It's disgusting!!
(snip)No sane employer would employ 75 year olds in preference to 25 year olds. Therefore, for this to happen it must be made impossible to fire an older person. (snip)
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I have to disagree. I work at a place where we have people in their 70's, lots of them, and they want to leave, but the company won't lay them off because they don't want to pay them their severance packages. (snip)
Wow!
Can I take it that looking good is not part of the job description around your company?
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I hate a quitter...One of DW's co-teachers is retiring this year. She is 82.
"The only problem is that the latest research shows that you’ll have to work much longer than you anticipated. In fact, many Americans will have to keep on working well into their 70s and 80s to afford retirement"
Umm.... pray do tell, what exactly is the anticipated life expectancy of such workers. Are they planning on retiring when they reach, say the youthful age of 85, or would 90 be the right age to finally "retire".
Probably a mistake to assume that a quip represents a policy statement.Ha-ha do you really mean no sane employer would have 75 year old employees because of their looks? Incredible! I thought looking good was only required by the job description for models and movie stars.
I hate a quitter...
No sane employer would employ 75 year olds in preference to 25 year olds.
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Good 4 U!As I myself work in an office with 3 people in the 70 plus club, I can say that we definitely don't have a policy requiring youthful good lucks, LOL!
Just a guess, but many will retire when they expire...