I have friends who are in their late 50's/early 60's who are very highly educated, intelligent, and experienced professionals who can't find work. One is an extremely smart mechanical engineer who is totally sick of being rejected for jobs by much younger and less experienced people. One the other hand, I went golfing last week up North, and for the first time in my life, I got the senior citizen greens fee rate, I saved $9 and rather enjoyed it. And yes, people used to call me dude, now they call me sir. I prefer dude, but I guess dudes don't have very thin gray hair?
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