A friend's daughter went through flight attendant training with a sixty year old, and in one of my last gigs, a fellow trainee was sixty-five, so getting hired late in life (i was over fifty when hired for three of my last jobs) isn't unheard-of. I was lucky to have had full medical coverage when I retired from corporate employment at 47.
So many people are locked into dismal employment by their need for medical insurance. For awhile, I thought that had changed.