Back To Work, Grandpa

12 Replies to “Back To Work, Grandpa”

1. I’ll be looking for another job in February

2. Is this a surprise? If you don’t work you starve, because inflation. Duh.

3. I’m over 70 and work. What am I supposed to do? Stay at home and fight with the wife? The way Trudeau tanked the economy and inflated the currency we’d be chowing down with Rover if I didn’t work. Kibbles and Bits anyone?

   1. Cat food is more ” meaty “.

4. 70 in a month….& looking.
   Driving..will be fine even with min wage…kills the time, and helps the mortgage…!

5. Joe Biden here. I’m hiring 87,000 more IRS agents. They’ll go after people (i.e. Republicans) who, as we all know, don’t pay enough taxes.

   Want to avoid an IRS audit? Donate to the Biden re-election campaign, or better yet, buy one of Hunter’s paintings.

6. Uncle Joe needs a few more shekel’s what?

   The plural of shekel is shekels.

   NOTHING is made plural with ‘s.

   NOTHING.

   1. Because that’s what is important here. Proper apostrophe use.

      Thank you, Captain.

   2. More like Captain Knobvious

   3. Nothing and never indeed!
      Where does this ubiquitous nonsense come from?
      Ugh

7. Here’s Nancy Pelosi my mumbling like Biden. Must be something in the water?

   Or maybe the Russians have put something in Nancy’s vodka?

8. The obvious may be the back end of the baby boomer generations is just now in the 55-70 cohort, I’m just coming up on 65 now. Also since when did 55 become an expected retirement age? If this article had looked at 65+, may be more relevant.

   While I did originally retire at 55 (from private industry, no defined benefit pension) I still wanted to work and stay active. I found as a consultant I am making way more money to put towards our retirement “fun times” list. Besides these last few years with all the restrictions, might as well work.

   55+ for most people is where they will make the most money in their careers, all that experience paying off. Why wouldn’t they work towards securing their futures? Not every one was fortunate enough to have the money or the financial know-how to build retirement funds through RRSP or TFSA (or 401K in USA) or investments early in their careers.

   As well, some career paths just would not provide enough income to have any type of investment, just look how low the average CPP payment is, around $650 per month or just over 50% of max funds. Considering CPP is based upon years worked and income level, this tells a story of a lot of people with long term, low income jobs or short contribution periods (many reasons).

   Cost of living has exceeded income growth for decades, most investments haven’t kept up either. Many who did attempt to secure their future have found that their investments are just not keeping up and they must now find a way to supplement their income. These are the stories that need to be looked at!

   I particularly don’t like graphs that are constructed to give a false comparison on first glance. That first graph uses two different X axis, one for 24-54 and one for 55+, and manufactured to look comparable. I ignored the rest.

   Try this again looking at 65+ and digging into the reasons these people are working and it may be a story worth looking at.