I like that - I'm saving up for my independence!  LOL  I will say the beautiful thing about a career as a Realtor is you're never "too old".  We recently had a transaction with an agent who was in his late 80s and still working!

I ditto David and Lisa Webber ! There is also an "older" nearly 80 year old man here in my neck of the woods still selling houses and telling it like it is !

Bill, most retired people I know are busier than many people who are working.  They've got new activities, hobbies, community involvement, etc. that keeps them busy.  Often they wondered how they had time for it all when they were working.  Many people I know also continue working well into their golden years -- when you enjoy what you do, it doesn't seem like work.  

Bill,  Brilliant comment....thank you for sharing this extreme wisdom with us. I think I'll have to check out Frank's blog....

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Jo 

Miss Jo, Brian, Miss Melissa and David and Miss Lisa --

Thanks so much for agreeing that our friend, Frank, made a really good point.

Last year I was a "fly on the wall" as the manager of one of the Dallas Dillard's stores told a man who was 68-years old that he didn't want to take the chance of hiring him as a furniture salesman because he thought the man was too old to learn the store's furniture computer program.  Can you imagine?  The manager just decided it...just like that.  No test, no training, no nothing.

Nevermind that my friend has lived in Dallas for a lifetime and has enormous connections that would have caused him to probably be the top salesman in that department in a matter of nanoseconds.

So my friend wasn't hired at Dillard's, and he told me the positive side of it was that at least that guy had interviewed him when no other places where he had applied, had. 

This kind of stuff goes on all of the time, and wish as you may that it's not true, companies encourage it and the government can't seem to put a stop to it.

That's one reason there can't be an end to Social Security.  Mountains of those who want to work, need to work and can are immediately overlooked by employers. 

Billycherry

Bill, I liked Frank's comment when I first read it, but I can't use it because people that I want to reach wouldn't know I was "targeting" them. If the term could come into general use that would be different. But changing everybody's perception is going to be difficult.

As for your friend the furniture salesman, what he needs is his own store. That way he can use his contacts and networks to his own benefit.

Good luck to him and Happy New Year!

Bill Roberts