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My plan is one mentioned on NPR several years ago: retire, but work part-time at a grocery store that has insurance benefits.
by seltzered 16y ago
My plan is one mentioned on NPR several years ago: retire, but work part-time at a grocery store that has insurance benefits.
- gaius 16y agoAll these clever plans fall apart when everyone does them. What are the barriers to entry to working part time in a grocery store? What makes you think you can compete with a teenager who wants that job?
- seltzered 16y agofair enough. I'd still like to do some job that is more socially involved and keeps me standing up every day, and talking to people. We have a fairly wealthy guy in his sixties who decided to work as a manager just to have something to do every day. Along with that my similarly-aged pension-era parents are starting a business for the first time. My point is that retirement isn't a requirement for living your older years. If anything retirement is more of a nascent American concept.
- _delirium 16y agoI agree everyone can't do it, but it does seem to be pretty common already, so quite a few people are doing it. Go to a grocery store at, say, 10am on a weekday during the school year, and the cashiers are mostly old (at least around here).