NB: This is as an employee of a retail chain - not a family-owned business.
Since moving to the United States, it’s struck me that I see way more people over 65 working in retail jobs than I ever did in Canada (granted, I only ever lived in major cities).
In Canada, it seems that people over 65 just retire, or at most transition into volunteer, part-time, or consulting work. I can’t remember the last time I saw anyone of that age group out on a retail floor or working the cash.
I don’t know if Canadians have better retirement savings, but certainly, having single-payer healthcare means those costs are largely covered, so there’s less of a need to have supplementary income.
What’s it like for people outside the US and Canada? Please reblog for reach.
I guess this goes hand-in-hand with the other observation, which is that these older folks I see working retail look like life hit them like a freight train; they seem much more visibly aged than their Canadian contemporaries.
Spain here. At 65 people usually retire and get a public pension equal to about 85% of the average of their salary in the last 25 years. So very few people actually choose to keep working, and those who do tend to be at high earning positions, so … Yeah, the first time I was at an US supermarket and there was this very old and very frail guy putting stuff in people’s bags was pretty shocking
In Spain maybe people who are poor or don’t have enough pension are also forced to make ends meet somehow, but that is not frequent enough to be seen in supermarkets or other jobs. They probably do it under the table.
Also, I think accepting certain jobs once you are retired forces you to stop getting your pension (because you have a salary). There are special conditions to retired people who choose to work somewhere.
Stop! Releasing 2 minute songs!! Idc about TikTok!!! If it’s a banger it needs to be at least 3:30.
I used to dance salsa and those songs last an average of SIX (6) MINUTES, unless they are live, when they can easily jump to ten (10).
I tried swing after years of salsa and, while I like swinging (badam tss), those songs last an average of 3 tiny minutes. What am I supposed to do with 3 minutes?? I barely have caught up with my dancing partner, we haven’t understood each other yet and the song is over and you have to find another partner. Who can dance like that? Find a live album, see if they reach 5 minutes or something!
And now I look for songs for meditation and they are also 2:53 minutes. How am I suppose to meditate with that?? I don’t even control my breath yet! What am I? A super skilled meditation monk who can meditate in a lift? Am I comfortably laying in bed or in a fucking hurry?
Make songs longer, or else!!
They actually do have dance cuts of songs. They’re often shorter than the original! (I think it’s that they’re cut to exclude changes in rhythm.) East coast swing is a very high energy dance, so maybe they don’t want people tired out mid song?
I agree that three minutes is too short for a song with a new partner. I guess they expect you to be dancing with someone you’re familiar with? Or they expect the lead to be really, really good.
In the places where I went for swing they didn’t have long versions and, coming from salsa it was so confusing. And because not many people there danced salsa, they were ok with it, but even for blues, having 3 minutes songs, why are you doing this? Why don’t you let people enjoy things? There are slow songs in salsa that are 8 minutes long, come on.
Un día de inesperada interacción social y estoy KO. Llevo 2 horas sin emitir ningún sonido tumbada en la cama. A veces noto que me estoy haciendo rígida porque me cuestan los planes improvisados, sobre todo desde que tengo dolores y problemas de salud, pero ¿es normal esto? Igual esa rigidez es la que me está manteniendo operativa, no sé.
So in 1944 my grandpa got tuberculosis. It was bad enough that they sent him to a sanitarium up in the Adirondacks for a rest cure, which was what was recommended at the time. He’d been married to my grandmother for just a little while; they had a son, my uncle, and she was pregnant with my dad.
While he was there he wrote letters daily. He wrote a lot of letters, I think, to his parents and sister and friends. But the ones he sent to his wife, my grandma, she kept.
I don’t know the chronology of it all, but after Grandma died, probably my dad found the packet of letters, as he was the one who went through her effects– might have been his little sister, my aunt. Anyway the packet got circulated around, and then came back to my dad, who carefully organized all of the letters into a binder with individual plastic archival sleeves. Someone asked after them recently, and Mom found them and pulled them out. I was over there today, feeding her cat while she’s on vacation, and so I leafed through them.
Grandpa’s handwriting is similar, a bit, to my late father’s, so I was able to read it reasonably easily. He started strong, the first letter he recounts how he fared in the rainstorm he’d apparently left home in, and then asks how Grandma fared.
How are you, my Baby? Did your schooner of sleep bear you safely thru the storm? If it didn’t then you won’t be reading this sorry excuse for a letter.
Stop! Releasing 2 minute songs!! Idc about TikTok!!! If it’s a banger it needs to be at least 3:30.
I used to dance salsa and those songs last an average of SIX (6) MINUTES, unless they are live, when they can easily jump to ten (10).
I tried swing after years of salsa and, while I like swinging (badam tss), those songs last an average of 3 tiny minutes. What am I supposed to do with 3 minutes?? I barely have caught up with my dancing partner, we haven’t understood each other yet and the song is over and you have to find another partner. Who can dance like that? Find a live album, see if they reach 5 minutes or something!
And now I look for songs for meditation and they are also 2:53 minutes. How am I suppose to meditate with that?? I don’t even control my breath yet! What am I? A super skilled meditation monk who can meditate in a lift? Am I comfortably laying in bed or in a fucking hurry?
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
Actually Captain Jack Harkness is SO important. During a time when we couldn’t get a single queer on screen in most shows and even those few we did get ended up dead 90% of the time, he was not only openly bisexual, he was openly bisexual and LITERALLY unable to die.
They buried that gay and he still dug himself up and kept fucking
ALT
