Retirement delayed and broke anyway

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I got hired at three different jobs

after age 60. Granted, I wasn't looking for something like IT, but still.

If you have not had paid employment since age 60, chances are you haven't worked a full 35 years, which will make a huge difference in what your SS will be.

Working at something, entry level office work, or even retail, is better than not working at all.
I had been a stay at home mom for some 25 years. I then got a paralegal certificate at my local community college, and got three different paralegal jobs after age 50, actually after age 55.

Getting rid of zero years of FICA payments more than doubled my eventual SS payout.

IT seems to be the very worst field when it comes to not hiring or retaining older workers.

If you actually get a pension, consider yourself extremely lucky. There's precious few of them any more, and too many companies have completely defaulted on theirs. I know, because that happened to me.