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In reply to the discussion: A Scary Fact. [View all]brewens
(13,557 posts)more are trying to get on disability is because so many of the good jobs are now gone. It used to be that someone that was beat up by years of physical labor would try and hang on to make retirement age if they had a good job. The older guys ended up with the easier jobs and could handle it.
It's brutal out there now. Many people that have been retired for years have no clue. I talked to a wine salesman a few weeks back. He had the same job as I did with our main competition when we started out. Now he's in his mid 50's as I am and there is no slack time. They mercilessly drive those guys. When we were kids back in the 80's, the guys that were our age now didn't have it half as hard. The difference is that all those little privately owned distributors have now all been bought up by bigger companies. My boss back then could be an asshole but he wouldn't work a 60 year old guy to death to squeeze a little more profit out of him.