Tracy Emerick on Being 60 Plus (60+)
Being 60+ has been interesting. I have exchanged the monthly expense of my mortgage with the monthly expense of my medical expenses. The difference is my mortgage had a declining balance while the medical costs for my wife and me continues to rise – come on Medicare. If it wasn’t for my new income stream, I doubt we could stay in our home and what a great time to sell, right at the bottom.
One of the most interesting issues of being over 60 is the snub you get from potential employers. I know I’m an expensive employee in medical expense alone, but the experience I would bring to an employer can take the mission across the finish line at twice pace as someone with less experience. However, my experience is a challenge to “managers” that are already in the company. They don’t want employees who can act independently, they want people who will do their bidding. I spent over ten years consulting to these type managers, quite insecure, which is why their hiring profile is to hire “dumb & dumber” so they are the smartest one on the block. At 60+ we are good to be a shelf stocker or a customer service representative, but not a decision maker. For heaven’s sake, we might actually make a decision that the manager hadn’t directed.
Moving out of the mainstream has been the most interesting of life’s drifts. I jumped into the internet in 1994 starting an internet development company and I didn’t know now to write one line of computer code – very fun, very dumb. Anyway, all of the social networks and texting have moved beyond my level of interest or need for living my life. In essence, I am fine with email, web and phone. As much as I have tried learning multiple social network sites is as boring as watching the test pattern on the TV (now that’s one for we 60+ to know and the 20-somehting to guess at).
Now I am using the technology of the 90’s to work with the populations of the 60’s so we can keep up, financially, with the lifestyle we enjoyed but is now slipping away.
Being 60+ isn’t the end of your life, if you would like a new income stream to recapture the good old days, hit the link below and go to Home so we can get to know each other.
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