Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations.
About 41% of Gen Z and 44% of millennials — those who are currently between 27 and 42 years old — are significantly more likely to want to do some form of paid work during retirement.
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This increasing preference for a lifelong income, could perhaps make the act of “retiring” obsolete.
Although younger workers don’t intend to stop working, there is still an effort to beef up their retirement savings.
It’s ok! Don’t ever retire! Just work until you die, preferably not at work, where we’d have to deal with the removal of your corpse.
You know, I am Gen X and honestly have never thought I’d be able to retire. I worked when pregnant until the day I had the baby, every time.
I now just try to keep work sustainable, take my PTO, don’t give them everything now for some potential future return.
No, I don’t need paid employment to have a full and happy life. There is plenty to do. But it’s not the worst life either.
I’m gen X, and I don’t care if I have to retire eating Dog food, I’m not working until I drop. The capitalists can bash that idea straight up their date.
If it’s good enough for the boomers, it’s good enough for me.
Same, except I’m a Gen X/Xennial man who never got anyone pregnant, so I didn’t have to deal with that problem. From the age of 12 when I entered the workforce part time to earn “spending money” by stripping tobacco, until 16 when I entered “the kitchen” with a food handlers licence the first time, until I was 39 and threw my back out I didn’t believe that I would ever be able to retire.
Since then my “luckiest bastard to ever exist” trait has kicked in. I’ve managed to accidentally start two “businesses” that will allow me to retire by the year 2026. I’ll be 45.
Don’t give up. Believe in your talents and stop falling prey to imposter syndrome. You have far more ability than you know. I know this to be true, because I am not special, and I found out the hard way that I have more abilities than I knew.