I'm so old I Remember when:

[Smoked Brisket]

 

[Smoked Brisket]

I've aged out of the job market.

I never expected to be working at 70 but mostly because I didn't expect to live this long.
I consider myself 'semi-retired'. I'll take a couple contracts a year. I get to travel, meet new people, see new things.
Also when I'm home, I'm up all night on the computer (like some of y'all.) I drift off at first light and sleep until the crack of noon. Play on the computer until time to take a nap. (I know, it's stupid.)
So I may as well travel/work.

 

[TXchickmum]

I consider myself 'semi-retired'. I'll take a couple contracts a year. I get to travel, meet new people, see new things.

-and that sounds like a good deal!

(I retired at 23 from an "official" work place, to begin the second career of raising kids. I'm so old I remember when a family could actually still get by on one income.) I don't envy all the HR stuff, and "considerations" in the workplace that are out there today. My hubby and grown kids navigate that maze. Different place...

 

[Smoked Brisket]

I don't envy all the HR stuff, and "considerations" in the workplace that are out there today. My hubby and grown kids navigate that maze. Different place...

Yes. I'm really glad I'm not starting out in this environment.

 

[MROO]

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The ad called it "Noelco," and I was VERY confused!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

It was in our history lessons.

Same here. There was a photo of the Hindenburg disaster in our history book as well as information about the internment camps during WWII.

Side note:

Part way up the mountains north of Tucson there's campground called Gordon Hirabayashi.

The camp site was originally a federal honor camp that housed federal prisoners supplying labor to build an access road into the mountains.

During World War II, some of the prisoners in this camp were Japanese Americans who protested the internment camps.

Gordon Hirabayashi was a college student who challenged the constitutionality of internment based on race or ancestry. He turned himself in to the FBI rather than report for relocation. He was sentenced to serve at that same federal honor camp.

His conviction was overturned in 1987. In 1999, the forest service renamed the site in honor of Dr. Hirabayashi and the other resisters of conscience who were imprisoned there. Dr. Hirabayashi and others attended the dedication ceremony.

The Arizona National Scenic Trail passes right next to the camp site, too.

 

[sdm111]

-and that sounds like a good deal!

(I retired at 23 from an "official" work place, to begin the second career of raising kids. I'm so old I remember when a family could actually still get by on one income.) I don't envy all the HR stuff, and "considerations" in the workplace that are out there today. My hubby and grown kids navigate that maze. Different place...

My daughter made it 3 years teaching high school science and decided to go a different route (sonography) couldn't handle constantly being the bad guy (girl) against the students, students parents, and coworkers that weren'tother teachers. The kids were horrible and unteachable
Lord help the workplace going forward with employees that literally don't know anything. Entering college knowing middle school math the students are in a big suprise. But the schools can't be seen as failing now can it. Just push them through and hope for the best

 

[TXchickmum]

My daughter made it 3 years teaching high school science and decided to go a different route (sonography) couldn't handle constantly being the bad guy (girl) against the students, students parents, and coworkers that weren'tother teachers. The kids were horrible and unteachable
Lord help the workplace going forward with employees that literally don't know anything. Entering college knowing middle school math the students are in a big suprise. But the schools can't be seen as failing now can it. Just push them through and hope for the best

Say it!! I could write a dissertation on it. I get reeeaaallly opinionated about the "education" or lack thereof transpiring these days. Ok. I'm done now.
-sorry your daughter had to endure all that.