I'm not terribly upset. (I just hope I stay employed.) Methinks the article is describing more that glamorous "culture" of retirement, which IMHO will fade away as rapidly as shuffleboard.
I never saw myself playing golf in Florida. Not one of those happy, cultured people on the retirement home brochures resembles me. For me, it's a straight road to the assisted living facility. In between I hope to work while God gives me the strength.
That's the job hoarding the article was complaining about.
If you wonder why you are working so hard to get a job, please note that a lot of these guys are sitting on theirs or at least working part-time.
-PJ
If ya believe that you'll believe anything. They'll have most of the boomers and their kids living in poverty and working until they drop dead. Government even looted their Social Security money which was confiscated from them at gun point.
Were there.
A better idea might be to watch the grandkids to give the kids a much needed/appreciated leg up. We are only as successful as our kids prospects are bright. It’s time to get on the same team and ditch this obsession with naming every decade or so.
being a nurse, I could work forever...infact, most nurses in the hospital do seem to work late in life...one reason is we don't generally have defined pensions like all the other community minded workers like teachers, cops and firemen...I guess nurses aren't worth it but that's a different story...
fact is, I could no longer be an idle retiree as I could climb Mt Everest...I am not in the brochures and either is my hubby.....
we are not into "pleasure" for simple pleasure and what rocks our boat is accomplishment....goals...something to be proud of...