Editoral - BabyBoomers Need Not Apply

I need to let off some steam here, but I think it is something that needs to be said too. I know jobs are getting fewer and fewer in between, but it is even getting hard to get work flipping hamburgers, or cleaning a room in a nursing home now. For 3 years, my husband and I both have been there, done that. (2 yr's for hubby, factory closed up and went way south.) we will have to move in with some friends by Fall if nothing comes up.

We are from the Baby-Boomer generation, (early 50's) and nobody want's us anymore. Some of us have hair that is turning gray, but most of us are still able to work like we used to, hard and on time.

All of us still have bills to pay, kid's to get though High School, food to eat. It's becoming a "too old to work, too young to retire" type of scenario. And many are choosing not to retire in our 60's.

Job security is not there anymore either. There was a time when factories were the way to make money. Anybody you knew worked in a factory. Now they are heading south into Mexico, like American's aren't good enough for the work anymore. "out with the old, in with the new" they say. There are more high-tech jobs coming in and less manual work. Not everybody goes to college for one reason or another....either no money, or lack of high I.Q. Some people may not have the high I.Q. for college, but they are still very intelligent!

Most manual labors have worked at they're jobs for years, and now 15 or 20 years from retirement age, they have no job. Factory work was all they knew, and were proud of it. I read a while back, even some CEO's are being phased out of their jobs in favor of the younger guy's. Do they expect all us baby-boomers to roll over and play dead? I don't think so! Not all of us wants to retire at 65.

It might be this way in all ages, but I seem to see it more in our generation... the baby-boomers, because I am one of them myself. You have bills to pay, get food to eat, pay on a house etc for most of your adult life....just because you turn a certain age, or getting a little gray, are not going to make the bills stop coming to the mailbox. The days of getting a job based solely on experience are gone....now you need papers, certificates saying you can do this and that, even if you have no experience at it. They keep telling us, go back to school, by the time we finish with all the schooling and training, it will be retirement age for us, and a school loan in our old age to pay for. So why force us out to pasture before our time.... Let us say when we need the pasture or the old rocking chair. Most of us baby-boomers still have about 20 more years of work life in us!