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Originally Posted by SESS but can't imagine after having worked 25-30 years at a job and then go back to minimum wage! |
Then you don't remember the farm economy collapse of the early 1980s do you? I was lucky. I had a MIL who financed my last year of college so I could get a teaching job instead of taking a min wage job. I could retire at Christmas with a fair pension, but I'll probably work a few more years. One of my neighbors who had been farming more than a thousand irrigated acres went to work with a larger GA school system grounds maintenance crew as a laborer. Within two years he was in charge of grounds maintenance for more than forty schools. Others went to work with various businesses and manufacturers as laborers, and several retired as managers of their various departments. One is now a real estate millionaire. When they suffer what seems to be a devastating blow, able people tend to land on their feet and at least maintain. Many prosper. I know it is harder for older workers, but many of those I'm speaking of were well into middle age.