There are several things happening in my life (real life -- as opposed to and in addition to my "SL" online second life) that are pulling me in a lot of opposing directions.
I don't feel at all secure about any employment, even though I have many irons in the fire, and several real opportunities right now. The way this country is headed, toward a kind of corporate feudalism or reactionary socialism, either way, could make life much harder for people like me. The dwindling energy resources will put an additional strain on all countries, economically and politically. Cruelty, I think, is the most probable next stage -- when it is not easy to be generous.
No corporation wants to hire people over 50. They sometimes have to because of laws, or they have to because there isn't a younger person that can do exactly whatever it is they want done. But there is always a sword hanging by a hair over your head at that age. Always many go-getters ready to go and get your job before you do.
In the meantime I must work many part-time gigs. I don't mind that so much when I'm working, it's just that it is over with eventually and there is the insecurity of finding a new one. I am not able to retire -- and I wonder if I ever will be able to -- so I'll probably work until death. Or I will be discarded and live in poverty in a socialistic nightmare with no money to support it -- much like the Soviet Union became.
Death is necessary for us older people -- we have to get out of the way of our own grandchildren. I just hope it isn't some warehouse for the feeble that I'm stuffed into -- waiting for life's final breath. I would rather just work until I drop dead. Work is all there really is left for me now. I live to work.
I don't feel at all secure about any employment, even though I have many irons in the fire, and several real opportunities right now. The way this country is headed, toward a kind of corporate feudalism or reactionary socialism, either way, could make life much harder for people like me. The dwindling energy resources will put an additional strain on all countries, economically and politically. Cruelty, I think, is the most probable next stage -- when it is not easy to be generous.
No corporation wants to hire people over 50. They sometimes have to because of laws, or they have to because there isn't a younger person that can do exactly whatever it is they want done. But there is always a sword hanging by a hair over your head at that age. Always many go-getters ready to go and get your job before you do.
In the meantime I must work many part-time gigs. I don't mind that so much when I'm working, it's just that it is over with eventually and there is the insecurity of finding a new one. I am not able to retire -- and I wonder if I ever will be able to -- so I'll probably work until death. Or I will be discarded and live in poverty in a socialistic nightmare with no money to support it -- much like the Soviet Union became.
Death is necessary for us older people -- we have to get out of the way of our own grandchildren. I just hope it isn't some warehouse for the feeble that I'm stuffed into -- waiting for life's final breath. I would rather just work until I drop dead. Work is all there really is left for me now. I live to work.
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