I 'm a dead has-been and I didn't even know it. Thanks, Jeff for pointing out that I am a steaming pile of cow dung on the fast track to nowhere.
He does offer some hope that by 2017 there will be such demand for workers, that companies will be forced to hire us old geezers just to fill the ranks.
I'm going to brush up on my typing for that post-retirement steno pool job just waiting for me at age 62.
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BY JEFFREY ZASLOW
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
"We baby boomers used to feel great about ourselves. We were creative, idealistic, in charge and in the spotlight. And now? Now we fear there's a new term that describes us: has-beens.
Boomer has-beens are human byproducts of the down economy and the youth culture we created. Lately, we have been measuring our declining relevancy by the losses in our portfolios, the length of our unemployment and the lines in our faces. Worst of all, we gauge it by the feeling in our guts that our greatest achievements may be behind us. " More >>
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