Show f Time To f Spare By GERALD ANDREWS Retirement Adviser er j Dont Don't Let the Bugaboo Frighten You Vou Of all aU the fictitious monsters that haunt people of retirement age the probably the worst More explicitly the he over sixty bugaboo This particular monster lies Iles in wait walt at employment agencies In offices and wherever wherever ever else Jobs Jobe are open but minds are lire closed dosed shut hut fast by bythe bythe bythe the myth that men and women over sixty are not good prospects pros regardless of their qualifications I owe the phrase over sixty bugaboo to Robert O. O Snelling That's a Ii good sign In hi Itself Hes He's the head of Snelling and Snelling which places more Individuals in more jobs than any ot other er agency ageTh This organization has people people peo peo- eo- eo Ile over sixty on its sial staff It places e people over sixty lib businesses of all types So when the boss talks about the over over sixty bugaboo he knows what he Is talking about abot Anyone Anfone our age ought to listen If U w we arent aren't looking for Jobs ourselves we certainly know or know about those who are Bo Some ma need employment to boost the family budget Others want to make profitable use of their spare time Still others would like to help out where they might be useful Too often age alone causes the be 11 applicant to rejected And the reasons as Robert Robert- O. O Snelling points out too tool often are simply phony Experience has proven that e 41 seniors are not unpunctual 7 1 that they do not ride the sick book and that their work Is not below the standards applicable ap ap- ap 1 to younger personnel It Jt has also proven that they they are more reliable more understanding under under- standing less given to complaints com eom- corn corn- plaints or Insubordination 1 So its it's no act of charity when bosses bosset put older people on their payrolls They can ex expect ex ex- pact value for their money ev eO More than one I large r corporation corpora corpora- o tion and end small b business Is la profiting from a growing awareness of this fact fact- It t tOscar Oscar Wilde coined the the phrase a monster without being a myth which Js s rather unfair That phrase phrae would seem to cover the over sixty bugaboo Insofar as it tie Is II still a reality affecting the behavior of employs employers But its it's rapidly becoming an exploded myth J ii |