What is it with Old People lately?!

I have seen this happen a number of times.
Being in the business 30+ years, more than 90% of those who get a license and "try" their hand in Insurance Sales soon find
out that very few really want to work that hard and drop out of the industry.

My first 10 years, over 60 hours a week was needed just to "start" my business. The next 15 years were more in the 40-45 hours
building upon the base I built.
The last 5-7 years, on average 20-25 hours a week. I was able to semi-retire at age 58.
But I paid my dues to get here.

Those first ten years were grueling. Almost no one wants to put in the time/effort. It is surprisingly difficult and these recruiters entice
those wanting to get into the business with a spiel about how, if they follow these simple-to-reach goals, they will be earning $1000+
a week.

Knowing full well that 98% of the recruits will fail and the agency Owner will absorb into their own book of business what business
the newbie wrote. Thereby building their own book-of-business at the expense of the time and effort of those who were gullible to
believe their promises.

It happens every time there is a drawback of troops out of a foreign country, or a downturn in the economy.
The pandemic was that downturn, and as soon as the recession hits, there will be another influx of recruits.

 

What got me that every single person earning $75,000 a year, and couples earning $112,500 quailfied for the whole amount of $2,400.

Everyone I know with those incomes ( and even less) put the money into their savings and did nothing extra to stimulate the economy.

Really, if you are a couple earning 6 figures, that was nothing but icing on the cake.

A disabed person on very limited income received the same.
Those of my clients tried to get caught up on their bills, some told me they went to grocery store and bought the groceries they wanted
instead of only the bare minimum they needed. One couple even told me they had all but forgotten what name-brand foods tasted like as
they had only bought store-brand for so long.

Our politicians are so fucking out of touch with the reality of day-to-day living pay-check-to-paycheck.

(The only one I thought had a clue at all was Obama when he pushed (and failed) to get the federal minimum wage limit to $10)

But as Neo pointed out about the beer. Yeah, well maybe it was to give them a break of worrying about everything for a while.

 

No argument there, I was only pointing out what I have seen first hand.
These insurance recruiters put the Army recruiters to shame when concealing the truth about what you are getting into.

 

Also, that applies in your field also.
My sister retired 15 years ago, as a para.
No need to pass the bar, she retired earnings $70,000 a year for the prior 6 or 7 years. Putting all of it in the bank as her husband worked for the utilities company making 6 figures himself.
Now retired in Florida with a few million in the bank.

 

About the younger generation;

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up everything good at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

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Socrates -- around 490 BC.

 

But isn't the American constitution about "rising against tyrants" stuff? If the parents or older people act like tyrants, its the young folks' duty to rise against 'em.

 

I think you missed the part of the quote that reads;

“-----. Children are now tyrants, -----,

So you are saying the children should rise up against the children?

 

People should rise against Tyranny, no matter if its tyranny led by older people or younger ones.
And I can tell you that most of the tyrants known in the world today are not kids, they are older people. Like Putin. Staline too was an older one, Hitler. Trump, too.
Older people, that thought 'they knew better' than anyone

 

In the classic sense of a tyrant, Trump is not a tyrant, because he is subject to the laws and to free votes in a democratic country that gave him power. A tyrant has no limitations on his power, he destroys the opposition and, most importantly, he stays in power continuously and illegally, changing laws to stay in power.

Parents are not tyrants, on the contrary, they have a very great responsibility and that is to educate some people, their children who arrive in this world with a blank mind and who can be easily influenced, so parents must give them the necessary mechanisms to , when they are alone in the street, know how to act in the circumstances that they live. We cannot equate tyranny with education, much less in parents who always want the good for their children. Maybe those children who want a lot of freedom and don't want the rules of their parents, but when time passes is when you understand that these rules have always been necessary. To say that parents should not impose rules because it is tyranny and that children should rebel against parents, is to have some children and then some citizens who think that there are no rules and that they can do what they want as if in anarchy. The problem today is that parents are no longer parents, now they are friends with their children and that is a mistake.

A part of my work is with children and not all of them lack education. There are many who are educated, but what people criticize is always what is done wrong. I also have teenagers but at that age what happens is that they give importance to everything that is not important and they don't focus, but all they need is a bit of rules, to be strict with them and they accept it very well. And among older people it is very varied, there are those who respect my knowledge of music and others who think that at my age I have nothing to teach them, it also happens with my co-workers, much older than me. Ta, well it happens to me on dad's farm. That is why I think that it is not just a question of age, but of the education they have received at home at any age and also of what they think society owes them, some think that they owe them nothing and are very pleasant and others think that they have given too much to society and expected a greater reward and that in their old age makes them surly.

 

Very well put/said of just common sense way of dealing with it.

 

When those older people started working in that place, things would also change and the older people who were in that place at that time would think the same of them. We also have evolution, it is necessary to evolve, a company, an office, a person, a country, a music must know how to evolve and adapt to new technologies. If a company has several offices in several countries and used to travel for a meeting and now it is done by Skype, it is an obligation to adapt. Fortunately, this evolution exists, otherwise society would not have changed its lifestyle or its politics or anything. It is almost necessary that the new generations bring about changes, have new perspectives, different approaches radically different from previous times, otherwise there will be no evolution, good or bad. It happens to me with dad, on the farm, my ideas are very impulsive and dad's more serene, but we have found that area of connection where we talk about everything and we have reasons for our ideas. The classic is not bad nor is the modern bad, the only bad thing is not wanting to evolve because then it is not those young people, nor society, nor technology, but it is the older people themselves who are left behind in evolution. But it's easy to blame the young.