LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: For many older Americans, the challenge is making ends meet. A new report indicates only a quarter of Americans over 50 are in solid financial shape. AARP found only one- third have private pensions. Even if they can afford to retire, some seniors choose to just keep on working. CNN's Anne McDermott tells us about one who simply changed careers.</s>ANNE MCDERMOTT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ah! Just watching it feels so good. And if you're getting it? The man with the hands is Vern Poore and he's only been doing this a few years now.</s>VERN POORE: Well, I got a massage once and I thought it was a great thing.</s>MCDERMOTT: Great thing? Sure, but wouldn't it be greater to be retired? Poore, after all, is 65 and, it's not like he needs the dough.</s>POORE: I'm not the retiring kind of a guy. I always have to be doing something. This is what he used to do. He worked on a sound crew for movies, including this one. Clint Eastwood's biography of Charlie Parker, called "Bird." And this one won Poore an Oscar.</s>POORE: I know this is solid gold, most of them have lead inside, and are gold plated, this one is solid gold.</s>MCDERMOTT: How do you know?</s>POORE: I'm just kidding.</s>MCDERMOTT: You liar!</s>MCDERMOTT: Hard to top an Oscar, but Poore says, his current career has similar satisfactions.</s>POORE: I enjoy when people say, God, I feel so much better now.</s>MCDERMOTT: Sometimes they say it very simply, as in, ahhh. Anne McDermott, CNN, Los Angeles.
Faced with Retirement, Poore Keeps On Working