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<blockquote data-quote="It_is_my_time" data-source="post: 1523990" data-attributes="member: 5301">For me, if I was 5 years older it would have been enough.&nbsp; Probably even 3 years older.&nbsp; I got out of college into the working world fast enough to beat the economic issues of the late 1990&#039;s/early 2000&#039;s but not early enough to benefit from the bull market of the 1990&#039;s.I can&#039;t speak for other men, I can only speak for myself.&nbsp; The field I am is being destroyed with legal immigration and H-1B visa workers.&nbsp; It is being further decimated by diversity initiatives.&nbsp; As a middle aged white male I know the reality is I am the last to be hired and the first to be laid off.&nbsp; My back and joints are starting to give out, probably from so many years of working nonstop and also because of a sleep schedule that is completely messed up from working at times 3 jobs.&nbsp; So manual labor and the trades are out for me.It isn&#039;t that I don&#039;t want to work.&nbsp; It is that I don&#039;t want to depend upon a paycheck to pay my mortgage and massive healthcare payments/care payments, etc.&nbsp; It would be easy for me to lose my job and hard to find a new one and in the meantime I could lose it all in this system.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want that pressure put on myself and my family.&nbsp; I honesty don&#039;t think it would be fair to do that to them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="It_is_my_time, post: 1523990, member: 5301"] For me, if I was 5 years older it would have been enough. Probably even 3 years older. I got out of college into the working world fast enough to beat the economic issues of the late 1990's/early 2000's but not early enough to benefit from the bull market of the 1990's. I can't speak for other men, I can only speak for myself. The field I am is being destroyed with legal immigration and H-1B visa workers. It is being further decimated by diversity initiatives. As a middle aged white male I know the reality is I am the last to be hired and the first to be laid off. My back and joints are starting to give out, probably from so many years of working nonstop and also because of a sleep schedule that is completely messed up from working at times 3 jobs. So manual labor and the trades are out for me. It isn't that I don't want to work. It is that I don't want to depend upon a paycheck to pay my mortgage and massive healthcare payments/care payments, etc. It would be easy for me to lose my job and hard to find a new one and in the meantime I could lose it all in this system. I don't want that pressure put on myself and my family. I honesty don't think it would be fair to do that to them. [/QUOTE]

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