Americans working past retirement

[Liberal_in_LA]

What disturbs her more than her situation, though, is that of all the men in their 60s, 70s and even 80s she worked with at Lowe's.

After losing their jobs as engineers and scientists, they now stock shelves just to survive. But they hide when fellow retirees come in, she said, because they don't want people they knew from their country clubs and higher-income jobs to see them.

When people work out of desperation and not choice, in other words, it carries little dignity.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/09/01/working.longer.ap/index.html

[Skittles]

1. I would never hide

there is no shame in working for a living - the shame is the economic reality that makes it a requirement to work past retirement

[barbtries]

2. i don't see me retiring period.

just in the past year i lucked into a great job with the possibility of being able to provide for retirement - but i'm not counting those chickens because if i do end up working for the rest of my life i don't want to be fretting over it. i was so sure i'd never retire before that that when my VP of finance discussed it using that word i laughed like a hyena. in my world the word was obsolete. i doubt i'm the only one. in fact i know many people in my age range (mid-fifties) who don't have much of a chance of retiring comfortably if at all.

[B Calm]

3. It's all part of the cheap labor conservative plan. Work cheap or

starve.

[Heddi]

4. My grandmother & in laws do/are doing this

Granny worked until she was 69 and physically could not work anymore. Quit, got a double knee replacement and is happier, but poorer than she's been in years

In laws are in their late 60's-mid 70's respectively and they're still churning out 40+ weeks for the long forseeable future

[searchingforlight]

5. I will continue to work because I love my work and the people I work with.

I did see a woman at Michaels yesterday who looked as if she could hardly stand up and she was a cashier. That is not a good thing.