How am I to survive my next 24 years? If I have to live as long as dad and mom?
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 5, 2017
How am I to survive my next 24 years? If I have to live as long as dad and mom?
I have no job, have no money, receives no stipend from anyone, no government, no syndicate ( I failed to pay the yearly dues for lack of money), no health insurance, no car (could no longer afford the maintenance, the gas and endless taxes on a rickety car), no public transportation…
I receives no monthly or weekly little financial aid from anyone.
Actually, the community, relatives and close parents who can afford it, are expressly punishing me from Not Working for Pay after I reached 62.
It is not that I don’t care to work for pay on a job that I like… I am not employable for doing anything.
I have worked on most minimum pay jobs, Not long enough to discover any passion for any of those businesses. For many years, I worked on 4 jobs within the university to pay for the minimum required course hours while doing my PhD in engineering.
With a PhD in a Not traditional discipline (Industrial Engineering and Human Factors in Engineering), and Not understood by most scholarly professors, I taught at a university for a few years on semester contracts.
My CV has so many gaps to fill the time schedule that my imagination would run out of ideas.
And I am more knowledgeable (higher education and continuing education) than any employer, and was exposed to far more trades and small jobs than any fat employer.
And I have no talent for any hobby to kill the time and express any kinds of passions, or be paid for any talent.
Tell me: “How can I survive my next 24 years, as I become as old as my dad?”
I keep myself fit, do exercise, walk a lot, garden, eat moderately, drink a little on “free” occasions…
I have not a pound of fat and I cut down to half a pack of cigarette a day, with filter added to reduce the level of tar in my lungs…
Am I talking abstract?
I don’t care to live much longer, what for?
I wrote what I had to say, published my autobiography, and I am helping for “free” when I can in my household (doing dishes, washing, mopping, cleaning…
I wish an institution will accept me to die of thirst: Hunger takes much longer to do the job.
This relentless activities to lengthen the lives of rich people is bad for our species.
Most third world populations and poor classes are being denied proper health care and preventive health on account of Not having enough money in the budgets
Many elderly are left to suffer indignities for continuous aches and pains, because covered by a health insurance.
The sons and daughters (already retired) are forced to care for their hapless parents and ruining whatever useful life they still have.
No, retired people should be saved from surviving their elderly parents. They too have rights to their life.
Note: After a year of going through a process, I managed to get retirement check every month, about $900. And I still have to pay for my health insurance, a pay-off a few debts that accumulated to pay for the retirement process.
I have to pay for mother’s medicines and many other monthly payments such as phone bill, cables, electricity, gas…
Enough to barely survive and keep mother feeling safer financial wise.
Enough money since I don’t intend on purchasing any car, or an iPhone or any modern gadget: I have nothing to sell and Not much to buy.
Enough since I don’t intend to travel and pay exorbitant money for any kinds of visas.
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