Are we all destined for a stable career lasting only 18 years?
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Anonymous
| Nope. I’m a teacher and I’ll be dead before I can afford to retire. |
Anonymous
| I don’t know anyone that was permanently out of work in their 40’s. However many people that I know changed careers at least once. |
Anonymous
What careers? |
Anonymous
Same. I did have an uncle that lost his job and had a hard time finding another (though he eventually did), but he was 55 or so. |
Anonymous
Agree. I'm RN, work in the outpatient clinic, my coworkers are in late 50s and even 60s. We all have secure jobs, because people will always get sick and someone has to give them treatment. |
Anonymous
Pink collar jobs are stable but way underpaid. |
Anonymous
Entrepreneur at 60 or something else? |
Anonymous
| I’m heading into year 27 of my career, I don’t know many/any people who were RIFed after 18 years never to work again. |
Anonymous
Teach on Long Island. It is full of double dippers. My old school district pays full pension at 55 plus 30 years of service. Teachers and school admin make like 130K to 350K. The Principal of my old high school. Was hire at $300K a year at 56 and we were bragging about the bargain we got. He got 350K his prior job and due to age we are not on hook his pension or medical in retirement. So he was taking home 650K a year at 56. She made the local paper once her husband did same thing. So the were and also getting 650K a year. So the two were making 1.3 million a year combined. Some teachers are really rich. I went to Stonybook and my full time law teacher was also a full time law teacher at Nassau Community college. He was getting two professors pay. worked 18 hours a week each school for a total of 35 hours a week with Summers off. Used to brag use same exact material and books at both schools so no much work and I let TA grade most of the papers Most teachers are millionaires. They pretend to be poor |