Preach it brother, just turned 50. This is my third recession, 9/11 then 2008 bust lost nearly everything. My life has been a jenga tower but i’m back lol
I’m doing better than ever. I noticed starting about 3 years ago how much easier it was to jobs I could not get before, started regularly making more money etc and noticed that simultaneously, a lot of Boomers were retiring....ie it was no coincidence. I’ve read about the same happening all over. Times are good right now.
That said, I am WAY behind from the Great Recession when I got utterly and completely crushed. I have a long long way to go to make up for that.
If Millenials are expecting us Gen Xers to retire early, they’ve got another thing coming. I plan to hang around extra long to make up for the prime earning years that were carved out of my career due to the Great Recession.