elderly workforce

[disneysteve]

i just got back from the grocery store where my bagboy was a guy well into collecting a social security check, he was a new hire getting trained and i am 100% positive he was not there because he wanted to be, im pretty sure his social security check aint cutting it

I'm curious how you are "100% positive" of that. Did you ask him? If not, how could you possibly know just by looking at him?

[97guns]

no i didnt ask him, he was not the talkative type and he sure looked like he didnt want to be there, i could be totally wrong and off base and only 80% positive but it didnt appear so.

sorry, i just can not fathom working for the fun of it or just to get out of the house

[bennkar]

I can add that my mother who is 70 still works and I don't think she needs the money. Of course she is self employed (beautician) and her "office" is attached to the house and her commute is maybe 10 seconds. I think its just because its all she's done for 40+ years, and her husband died, so it keeps her engaged with the world. She works maybe 50% of the time she did many years ago, but certainly has the strength for it. Last summer I replaced her roof, and she was often up there helping me, though usually for a hour at most, often less than that. Crazy as that was probably the first thing we did together in decades.