USA Today had an article on how boomers are dropping out of the job market.

[leftyladyfrommo]

27. Yes. That's it in a nutshell.

I keep hoping that maybe someone will actually notice - or even care, if that's not asking too much.

We had a letter to the editor in the KC Star a couple of weeks ago by a millinial that was complaining about not being able to get a job after she got her degree in Education. She was pretty much blaming her situation on the older people who I guess are hogging all the jobs. I wanted to write in and tell her that the Boomers have it a whole lot worse than she does. And it's not our fault. When the whole economy is run by corporations you have to play by their rules. And even then you can get forced out for absolutely no good reason except that they don't want anyone around that's over 40.

Our job situation is a real mess. And with computers sucking up more and more jobs it probably will only get worse.

A young friend of mine was telling me that there is now a machine that can make burgers up to something like 350 an hour. And lots of fast food places are using apps so that people can order and pay and not need to talk to a human.

Great news.