How many people are finding themselves in the new economy, unmarketable? I thought it was just me , being in real estate and heading in to the big 50, but I am thinking that it is more wide spread than I thought, This wave of unemployment and cut backs seems to be hitting all kinds of employment and all kinds of people with varying degrees. Why all of a sudden are people that have given a lot of time and effort and sometime over half of their working career just becoming disposable? The term job security , now means nothing. When I was growing up I was taught get a job, house, and then a savings, all of these things seem to be mute points in todays society. Jobs are just getting taken out from underneath people that have worked for years and years, housing are losing value and becoming more of a burden than an asset, and savings, how many of us have watched our savings/ retirement just go by the way side. So what do we do? Just say oh well? I feel that it is to late in my life to change careers, and I really do not want to go back to school. I want some one to stand up for the middle aged american, and say hey you can not do this to these people, but who will stand up for us? That is the question I have been asking myself for a long time. Being self employed I don;t have any one that comes up to me and says, hey clean out your desk, which is in a way harder, because, I have to keep myself motivated and feeling great. So if the government is bailing every one else out, why don;t they make the new retirement age for medicare and social security 50, and then all of us can be put out to pasture, with at least a little security and not left in the middle of the street with just our britches.
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Well I, for one, don't want to be put out in the street with just my britches; that wouldn't be a pretty sight! I think the current administration IS looking out for us *cough cough* middle agers, with re-vamping the medical system and creating new industries that anybody can be a part of. Unfortunately, there's a lot of old white haired pale-skinned grumpy looking dudes that are trying to keep the progress at a minimum. I think the first step for those of us experiencing this slow lane is to make sure we think and act nothing like those dudes, rather the opposite. Never give up on hope, nor progress!
ReplyDeleteIt's not just an issue with middle aged people. It's an all over issue. I myself have applied for job after job after job. Since October of 08 I have had ONE job interview. I have skills in several different areas. yet NOTHING Has come up and im not newar middle age yet. the problem is with so many unemployed people when you go apply for a job you are applying against thousands instead of a few matched skilled individuals. Right now employers have the control they can be picky and selective in who they choose, what they will offer. Even if we have a job we just have to sit and take the blunt force of what they decide to throw at us. Their attitude is where else are you going to go. Right now many are in a job just for a pay check. You use to go to work with pride now its just so you know where your next meal will come from.
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