[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks] OT "Senior Citizen Jobs" at 52

[Suzette H]

Are we discussing job creation in America or Chile?
America buys a fair bit of chilean products - wine being one of my more well
known and favorite....

There is a Facebook page for Fair trade organizations in Chile
www.facebook.com/pages/COMPARTE-*Fair*-*Trade*/21375313401<http://www.facebook.com/pages/COMPARTE-Fair-Trade/21375313401>

I think it is very disturbing to see that the very valuable contributions of
older people are disregarded or not utilized.
They know how to do things we do not, we are losing skills every day.
This is why I think it's really great that people in the SCA are so willing
to share their skills and develop people.


Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:13:50 -0300
From: Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Sca-cooks] OT "Senior Citizen Jobs" at 52
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    My sister and her husband took early retirement in the 1990's from
IBM. It was great. They not only received a nice pension but they
established a private company. Now so many years later my roommte from
the university thought she had gone for the gold mine of $700 a month
from Social Security but have nothing in the bank from the companies for
which she worked all those years. Her husband is in the same boat. They
are looking for jobs like mad but a resume saying one is 52 does not
seem to be acceptable. They are water over the dam.
    The more one thinks about it the more serious this gets. Do these
people have insurance policies? What will medicare cover for them from
now on?
    In Chile some insurance companies will not accept applicants over
55. Others discontinue their help when you are over 90.
    For Stefan's case in particular and other dear friends, I think
this is a very serious matter which needs your input. In general people
do not pay for culture. How can we sell our culture to make a living?
Suey