2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why Baby Boomers Don’t Get Bernie Sanders [View all]1monster
(11,012 posts)an hour after 22 years on a job that requires two different special licenses.
I'm making $12.00 an hour after fifteen years in the same job with an Associate Degree.
He's nearly sixty-nine and has a degenerative disease, but cannot retire yet... I'm hoping that he can retire at seventy. I'm sixty, and I don't have any hopes of ever retiring.
We were well off for a while in the seventies and early to mid eighties, but not since then... We both often worked two jobs in those days, though.
Gen Xers and Millennials definitely don't have it easy. I'm putting my Millennial through college one or two classes at a time.
But don't assume that Boomers have it easy. Many of the ones I know are seriously worried about how they are going to survive in their senior years as their bodies fail more and more often and the prices of necessary drugs go up and up and up.