"I See Old People" Taking Over The Service Job Economy

[magical thyme]

89. she's already on Social Security

and has been for 2 years now. She took it I think at 62, so still too young for Medicare. Because she's reasonable well off -- lives in Florida now from November until April or May -- ACA may or may not lower her health insurance costs. I'm hoping it will enough for her to decide to fully retire. She was looking very tired this summer (especially after she got into a brawl with a ladder at home) and is making more and more serious mistakes, which in a hospital lab is not a good thing. The fact that she does take 6 months off from work every winter tells me she's working for the insurance, not to "get out of the house." (Not to mention there are *tons* of volunteer places and things to do in this tourist region.)

I have another co-worker that I'm hoping will be able to retire soon. When I was in my training period, a day did not go by that I didn't hear her muttering "I wish I could retire soon. I wish I could stay home." Made my training period there pretty sad, because she was vocalizing what I was feeling every day but didn't dare say out loud, lol.

I agree, we need to scrap the cap, lower retirement age at least to what it used to be and lower Medicare age as well. If they lowered retirement age enough, I couldn't retire fast enough. You get to where you are counting the years, months and days. I get so effing bone tired. They closed the emergency room of the nearest other hospital, which on the one hand is keeping our hospital going, but on the other hand most of our work is ED so high speed and very stressful. There is nothing so stressful as trying to work up a messy CBC with a panicky doctor standing over your shoulder