We didn't know we were lossing our jobs

No one told us we were going to lose our jobs at all we figured we were keeping our jobs just getting out more work . Some of the people had worked there for over 20 years .
We all worked will together we were a team everybody knew everybody and was friendly toward one another .
Machines started getting shipped out of the plant our big boss came out and told us not to worry we were not lossing our jobs we were .
About a month or to latter they finally told us that some of us would go first others would stay longer that we were eligeable for retraining . I looked into the retraining at the local college . First thing they want you to do is list what you like to do . Will I like to do art I have worked in a lot of areas in art I have done ceramics for about 4 or 5 years . Plus I had two years of art in high school I sew . I have done bread dough . I embrodery I have copied pictures from the kids coloring books and have embrodered them for the kids when they were young .
I have made rag dolls dressed dolls I have a degree in cosmetology which I never really used . I put down I like everything there is in art it came back you don't like art .
I took college entrance exam and figured if I kept coming back and tring I could test at a higher level that didn't work
I was a old person . I wanted to write books and illustrate them my self they didn't like that at all . They didn't have money to train people to write book they wanted people doing other things I was to close to retirement to retrain even when I worked at Merit I had this crazy idea of writing books and I worked on it in my spare time .I was not finished with a book but I had made a lot of progress .I talked to a seinor advisor called Dr T he was a wonderful man who advised people he thought I should get a job not train and do what I wanted ot do in my spare time .
So I wound up pounding the pavement looking for a job while I continued to work on my first book and took a seinor class in writing to help me .
They had a thing in there were some old people could retire early our company didn't want that