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There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed.

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.