"I find myself at 72 working four days a week. I've lived in this house for 72 years and haven't gone anywhere. To get back into the workforce and get another job at this stage of the game isn't going to happen. Everything now is AI, and it's very technical. You have to be on the ball and create a whole different niche in life. Unless I can think of something else to do to create more wealth at this age, then I'm sunk."
"In 1971, I worked on loan collections at a bank, and then as a secretary. I got married and started at a major insurance company, doing medical claims for airlines. My mother and sister opened up a uniform store - Josie's Uniforms and Shoes, after my mom's name. I worked there for a while before returning to MetLife. Then, my father died in 1999."
Susan Freeman left steady employment to provide full-time care for an ailing mother, foregoing a promotion and pension. She held jobs in loan collections, as a secretary, at MetLife, and briefly in the family uniform store, then owned a pizzeria that was later sold after her mother's stroke. Caregiving responsibilities and family strains interrupted steady income and savings. Her mother died in 2019. At 72, Freeman works four days a week at her sister's store, lives in the same longtime home, lacks substantial savings, feels unable to reenter an AI-driven job market, and fears financial vulnerability.
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