I am not sure, I can square my life or rather the next 30 years of it with the idea of a ‘new career’…
Working until I am 81 plus does not sound that exciting to me at least if I was to frame it in the traditional definition of work.
I do not see myself retiring anytime soon.
What got me thinking of this was Older workers take a new career path, Morice Mendoza’s review (in FT) of Retire Retirement a book by Tamara Erickson (to be published on March 15).
He says that in her essay "Tamara Erickson predicts that many people will have their new career between the ages of 55 and 85".
I agree that many of us will be active but her take sounds more like an echo of the standard ‘9 to 5’ schedule.
A more fluid view of things in my opinion would be alternating periods of work with travel and personal endeavors as Tim Ferriss suggested in The 4 Hour Work Week and describes as Mini Retirements.
It could even be a blending of work and leisure at times.
For example, I plan a trip to Europe in September and will some days have only personal time, others visit places for pleasure and later that same day write about it.
Thoughtful on Friday morning
Fits right there with the themes of my Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet panel at South by Southwest Interactive on March 8.
What’s your take.
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