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Now that the New York Times has reported that older workers make good employees, (For a Good Retirement, Find Work. Good Luck) I guess employers around the country will take heed. As if.
In spite of the fact that the frightening prospects of 78 million or so of my fellow Baby Boomers leaving the work force en masse and straining the resources of an eviscerated Social Security (eviscerated because the federal government keeps “borrowing” from the Social Security trust fund) would not come to pass if baby boomers kept working, there is no pressure on employers to find a way to retain older workers. And just so you know, survey after survey indicate that baby boomers want to continue working.
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I came across an article I had clipped out, but hadn’t read. Its headline was “Baby Boomers Will Need $225,000 for Medical Expenses in Retirement.”
Okay, that got my attention. Healthy sized six-figure numbers will do that.
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Just what am I losing? Lots of things. In the past two weeks I have lost my wallet (the night before leaving on a trip – thank God I had a passport as a photo ID), my car key and just yesterday my mobile phone.
What’s going on here? I never used to be absent-minded. Are these “misplacings” just aberrations in my usual routine, or are they symptoms of something much more sinister?
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Like many women my age I have fantasized about getting a face lift. I’ve stood in front of the mirror with my hands on either side of my face and gently pulled the skin back to its pre-fortysomething place. The results in the mirror look pretty good – but walking around with my hands planted firmly in front of my ears isn’t a long term solution. Beating the clock needs lots of sharp instruments, including scalpels and needles and/or pharmaceuticals that paralyze or plump.
When I get bouts of what can only be called face-lift lust, I drag out the cards of doctors my friends “swear by” and sit by the phone thinking about making an appointment.
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Oh, I love this: Brian May, who wrote “We Will Rock You”(an anthem played, I’ll admit, with nauseating frequency at sporting events) and sang the bass parts of “Bohemian Rhapsody” as a member of the seminal band Queen, completed his doctorate in astrophysics last year at Imperial College in London and has written Bang! A Complete History of the Universe, a book on the beginning of time.
So much for the conventional wisdom of the time that rock ‘n’ roll musicians were n’er do wells who, as Dire Straits so succinctly put it, get their money for nothing and their chicks for free.
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