{"id":3621,"date":"2014-03-03T20:37:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T00:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2014-03-03T20:54:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T00:54:52","slug":"kerrys-expert-tips-on-startribune-over-50-working-against-time-in-americas-harsh-job-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=3621","title":{"rendered":"Kerry’s Expert Tips on StarTribune: Over 50, working against time in America’s harsh job market"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"interstitial_logo_252x37\"<\/a>As hard as he tried, Michael Duffy couldn\u2019t find a job to match the one he\u2019d lost.<\/p>\n

For two decades he earned six figures selling equipment to factories. But at 62, he kept getting turned away, one job interview after another.<\/p>\n

So last fall he started at Starbucks.<\/p>\n

He wears a green apron, wipes tables, mans a cash register that he\u2019s gradually learning and banters with people who order an espresso breve or a Caramel Brul\u00e9e Latte. He has natural rapport with customers, especially older ones, enjoys winning people over and likes taking care of them.<\/p>\n

But he makes less in a day than he did in a half-hour at the peak of his sales career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pay isn\u2019t what we would all hope,\u201d Duffy, of\u00a0Eden Prairie<\/a>, said the day he started. \u201cBut it\u2019s something to do and it\u2019s great benefits and we\u2019ll see where it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has never been easy to get older, need a good full-time job and not have one. But that\u2019s the predicament now for more Americans than ever, and the challenge\u00a0has gotten steeper in the prolonged recovery<\/a>. Millions of workers in their 50s and 60s are drifting into the perilous intersection of unemployment, underemployment and retirement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation is worse today than it has been in past recoveries,\u201d said Sara Rix, a senior strategist at the AARP Public Policy Institute. \u201cThese men and women have little time to recover, and working later in life may be the only way some can make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/strong><\/em>By\u00a0Adam Belz<\/a><\/p>\n

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