Boycott Walmart in Seguin TX

NYCgrrl wrote:

DallasSteve wrote:


I think it is all in how you market yourself and how eager you are to find work. I am NOT a programmer, but am retired and have picked up a couple of small contracts to keep me busy and give me some "mad money". I am continually being asked to do more, with more money being thrown at me, which I refuse because I don't want to work full-time and I like the flexibility of my current schedule and workload. If I kept taking on work, I'd be making more money than when I was working in my career full time. I don't know what field you are experienced in, but I find that employers are looking for people that have knowledge and experience and know how to get the job done right. They could give a darn what age you are, or what you look like. If you can produce, they want you and are willing to pay you. Perhaps it is different where you live, but I've not experienced ageism at all (except for getting my cheap "Geezer Pass", my senior meals, my senior discounts at hotels and grocery stores.

The hotel the man managed was sold a few years before he planned to retire. He searched for a new job with no success finding a comparable position since at that time literally a hotel could have hired at least two newly minted college grads at his then salary to do the same job.
He still works occasionally making mad money but that amt and his S.S. (taken earlier than planned, sigh) left a decided hole in our combined income and retirement plans. Fortunately the real estate market picked up this way which helped to fill the gap but it's still funds lost to being too old.