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Originally Posted by aklim
He was in his mid to late 50s. He had a heart condition and had to stop. When he went back a year later, things had changed. Most of the major contractors wanted a college degree and the ones he had worked with were now out of business or under new management that did want it.
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Life isn't fair - to be certain. Health issues can and will hit everyone at some age.
If I were to apply for work in my field as an employee, I would be laughed out of the building because of my advanced experience and age level versus what the 20 and 30 something's pay scale there is now. Nevermind I can do the job of most any two/three people of that age group in my industry - but when you've been out of the 'employee' workplace as a self-employed person as I have for decades, you become irrelevant to their needs, versus the penny-anty workplace of the low-paid drones in the industry.
Frankly, I have no interest of ever going to work for someone else ever again - way too confining financially AND otherwise for my free spirit!
