Announcing a new working class – “The Actively Retired”

Come and swell the ranks of the unemployed, er…, the actively retired

For the actively retired, like me, The Personal Money Store is a real godsend. It provides a whole extra range of activities to help me through the days, and some nights too. Shopping for a Personal Loan involves a great deal of computer activity and this is what the active retired community thrives on. Before I upgraded to my new employment status I considered web-surfing to be State-of-the-Art time wasting.

Web-surfing

Today it is a much respected occupation. There are not many of us who can spend an 8 hour day in cyberspace, surfing for important information, gliding from one link to the next, marveling at the endlessness of the information highway. This is an acquired art and is the result of hours spent in front of the computer.

Health hazards

My ophthalmologist, who I visit at 3 month intervals because she insists I can get glaucoma at any moment, warned me about excessive computer use and says that she sees a definite change on the retina thing at the back of my eye, the screen, as it were. "It has developed the format of a computer screen," she noted two visits ago.

"At last!" I breathed thankfully.

My days

So my days are well taken care of. The mornings are crammed full of retirement activity. I browse the newspapers briefly; the news is always depressing: unemployment, swine flu, bad economy, swine flu, yucky job market, swine flu. Actually once you've read one paper, you've read them all. I do the NY Times crossword, check my miserable little portfolio for signs of renewed life, read the health tips, log into my bank account and take a fleeting glance at my overdraft, and by then it's almost time for lunch. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Announcing a new working class – "The Actively Retired""