OUT OF A JOB

This is it, the end of life as I know it.

I've worked all my life but starting Monday morning I'll be out of a job. Compulsory retirement. Used abused and tossed away like a snotty Kleenex. 35 years invested in a career and suddenly I'm unemployed (along with hundreds of other mill employees). I understand about business but that doesn't help, especially when our plant made more profit than any other in our sector last year.

I could go back to school but after getting a 2 year degree I'll be 60-61 and who wants to hire an old woman? Plus I was interested in computer programming/security and I've been informed in no uncertain terms that "it's a young person's field".

I have no social life outside of work. All my friends are married and their husbands consider a single woman a threat.

I don't date, haven't in years. Most of the men my age aren't interested in women my age.

I won't have money to travel like I dreamed in my retirement fantasies.

Enough bitching; time to put on my big girl panties and get on with it. Donna says that I can join her in a life of leisure and poverty. Guess that's my new life plan….