Hello why are a majority of the jobs on the senior list labor jobs and long hours of standing?

[Cookie]

Too true, Denise. Sadly I haven't kept up with the technology either since I've retired. I struggle with my home computer and if I get stuck I ask one of the 'kids'.

 

[Denise1952]

Too true, Denise. Sadly I haven't kept up with the technology either since I've retired. I struggle with my home computer and if I get stuck I ask one of the 'kids'.

I hear so many folks say the same thing, "my son or daughter will take care of it" LOL! Well, we are lucky we can get by without still. May come a time when all is so hi-tech, and that's probably about the same time they start shoving us oldies off to some recycle "farm" or send us to the island of "obsolete" people, LOL! Hey, maybe I shouldn't laugh:sosad::bonvoyage:

 

[Cookie]

Island of obsolete people sounds like a tropical paradise, but will there be ice cream and clowns? I think those are called 'nursing homes'.
I think I'll just try to keep us as much as I can, might not get me the dream part-time job, but at least I can do some online banking and shopping when I need to and watch some netflix - not leavin town yet.

 

[Grumpy Ol' Man]

Can't totally agree that people switch jobs today unlike they did years ago. My brothers sons are on the same job for years now. One of them was going to quit for a better paying job and my brother told him "definitely don't do that. You have great benefits, descent pay and a great retirement package there. Don't blow it by leaving."

There are people that have City, County, State and Federal jobs that have been on them for years.

I did move around quite a bit and go from one job to another. The longest I was ever on one job was 4 1/2 years! That's not good when I was employable for 38 years! But, different things happened where I had to quit some jobs, got laid-off and even fired.

It's true that staying on a job for 5, or as much as 10 years today, was like staying on one for 20 years in the past.

I've been in the engineering/construction industry for over 40 years... with 4 different firms. I'm the "shiftly" one in our family. Our oldest daughter has been with a large university alumni association for just over 18 years. Our son has been Army for 11 years. The middle child... another daughter... has been with 3 employers in the 20 years of her marriage. She is a corporate exec with a firm employing just over 1,000 people. They just announced being bought by a much larger firm... 11,000 employees... and is worried about what the merger will mean to her future with that firm.

I've worked most of my career with municipalities and have seen many City employees work from entry level until retirement with the same community. Some of those are real assets to their Community. Others are real 'a** sets'!!! :>)