I am older than your target market. Retired, I am in 60s, married, two dogs, and no big income. In fact we are now living on our retirement funds. Is it hard? We had to make some hard decisions but it worked out. I don't know if it is sheer dumb luck, God, or just doing the right thing at the right time. No one really knows what the future holds, neither do I.
As a senior now, and if you can bear to hear what I am saying, it might help you. Are things scary? Yes. Will this be the new normal, scary times, unsettled emotions, changes that come out of nowhere? What about my education and my kids? How do I prepare for what life throws at me? How can I be safe, secure and loved. Have meaningful relationships and thrive. silence. you are doing everything now that you can do. You have a reserve within yourself that you draw from. You talk to friends, family and others to not only check in but learn from each other. There are lots of people who did not have great parents in the 1970s. They got public education, maybe did college, (if they were smarter) they got involved in a trade. The interest rates were roughly 18% on a mortgage. It was a time when there were pensions, companies saw their success not only from their product but from people who made, designed, and manufactured the item or service. Gas was under a $1, but there was inflation and salaries did not match the rate of inflation. Food was expensive and we had gas guzzling cars! Land yachts, we called them. Our fathers were in the steel industry, manufacturing, automotive, farming. Often whole families made do. Credit cards were unheard of and most people just had checking and savings accounts. Scary right? But we survived. You will survive. You adapt, you join a food co-op, you buy a used or less expensive car. You do a staycation. You do a day trip. You and your family get together to see if you can do a beach week if you all chip in. You look at your spouse and say I love you, you realize that people are pushing your buttons. why? because they can. When things go bad you have the skills to handle it. You talk to friends, talk to an elderly person about how they survived the bad days. You look at your kids and think that they, with your help, will learn that not everyone gets a prize, everyone falls down and skins their knees and they get up and play some more. You have Friday night pizza and games. Saturday night friends over, clean when you can. Sunday prepare for the week ahead. Rinse and repeat.
We are all entering a new phase of working. Less companies and more independents. Its okay, you are not alone and this isn't the apocalypse. Just a massive shift in our lives. We did it in the 1970-1980s. it is happening again, the difference is that we have news, doom scrolling access at our fingertips. It is nonsense.
I have known two doom and gloom people in my life. One was my grandmother who predicted that there was going to be one world order, that everything would collapse and we would be on the street. She was wrong/ She wanted here daughters to never marry, never have kids, or be successful. She wanted her daughters home to take care of her. It was never going to happen because the daughters left because of doom and gloom. She predicted the death of every husband her daughters married. Never happened. But she got off on fear, of control, and make everyone need her. when she died she died alone, without her family around and there was no fighting or arguments about who wanted what. There however was a sigh of relief because no more doom and gloom.
The second person was a co worker. His outlook on the world, current events, stock markets, and just daily living were toxic. I would come home in a real state thinking nothing was going to get better. My husband would then go to the computer and show me positive events, remarked that the stock market went up and down, and we recovered. Doom and gloom people have been around forever. They make life very scary but you are smarter because you know it is a phase and you have resilience, intelligence, adaptability and know things will work out in the end.
I am older than your target market. Retired, I am in 60s, married, two dogs, and no big income. In fact we are now living on our retirement funds. Is it hard? We had to make some hard decisions but it worked out. I don't know if it is sheer dumb luck, God, or just doing the right thing at the right time. No one really knows what the future holds, neither do I.
As a senior now, and if you can bear to hear what I am saying, it might help you. Are things scary? Yes. Will this be the new normal, scary times, unsettled emotions, changes that come out of nowhere? What about my education and my kids? How do I prepare for what life throws at me? How can I be safe, secure and loved. Have meaningful relationships and thrive. silence. you are doing everything now that you can do. You have a reserve within yourself that you draw from. You talk to friends, family and others to not only check in but learn from each other. There are lots of people who did not have great parents in the 1970s. They got public education, maybe did college, (if they were smarter) they got involved in a trade. The interest rates were roughly 18% on a mortgage. It was a time when there were pensions, companies saw their success not only from their product but from people who made, designed, and manufactured the item or service. Gas was under a $1, but there was inflation and salaries did not match the rate of inflation. Food was expensive and we had gas guzzling cars! Land yachts, we called them. Our fathers were in the steel industry, manufacturing, automotive, farming. Often whole families made do. Credit cards were unheard of and most people just had checking and savings accounts. Scary right? But we survived. You will survive. You adapt, you join a food co-op, you buy a used or less expensive car. You do a staycation. You do a day trip. You and your family get together to see if you can do a beach week if you all chip in. You look at your spouse and say I love you, you realize that people are pushing your buttons. why? because they can. When things go bad you have the skills to handle it. You talk to friends, talk to an elderly person about how they survived the bad days. You look at your kids and think that they, with your help, will learn that not everyone gets a prize, everyone falls down and skins their knees and they get up and play some more. You have Friday night pizza and games. Saturday night friends over, clean when you can. Sunday prepare for the week ahead. Rinse and repeat.
We are all entering a new phase of working. Less companies and more independents. Its okay, you are not alone and this isn't the apocalypse. Just a massive shift in our lives. We did it in the 1970-1980s. it is happening again, the difference is that we have news, doom scrolling access at our fingertips. It is nonsense.
I have known two doom and gloom people in my life. One was my grandmother who predicted that there was going to be one world order, that everything would collapse and we would be on the street. She was wrong/ She wanted here daughters to never marry, never have kids, or be successful. She wanted her daughters home to take care of her. It was never going to happen because the daughters left because of doom and gloom. She predicted the death of every husband her daughters married. Never happened. But she got off on fear, of control, and make everyone need her. when she died she died alone, without her family around and there was no fighting or arguments about who wanted what. There however was a sigh of relief because no more doom and gloom.
The second person was a co worker. His outlook on the world, current events, stock markets, and just daily living were toxic. I would come home in a real state thinking nothing was going to get better. My husband would then go to the computer and show me positive events, remarked that the stock market went up and down, and we recovered. Doom and gloom people have been around forever. They make life very scary but you are smarter because you know it is a phase and you have resilience, intelligence, adaptability and know things will work out in the end.
You are smart, really smart.
Thank you for this thoughtful insight, Patty. We appreciate you :)