Retirement: Hearing The Diverse Voices Of Experience
OK. I’ll write about Retirement as you readers requested. But I want to use your examples to begin, your Diverse Voices of Retirement Experience.
We often talk inaccurately about Baby Boomers as if they are all similar or even homogenous. We also talk about Retirement as if it magically means the same thing for all of us. It doesn’t.
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Baby Boomers Are Running Out of Money and Are Less Healthy
I recently passed a billboard in NYC that extolled the virtues of beginning to seriously save now for retirement. This called to mind two articles a national news agency published recently within 3 days of each other.
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Tagged baby boomers, health problems, pension, retirement, retiring, saving money
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65 Is A Really Dumb Number!
“I’m 65 today!” our neighbor Bill Wentwhistle announced proudly at Coffee World. “I’ve waited years for this moment. Now my real life begins. I can retire. I can qualify for all kinds of discounts. I’m a Senior!” He sat down in triumph to sip his large decaf with steamed skim milk.
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Tagged 65 years old, golden years, mandatory retirement age, retire, senior, senior discount
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Responding To The Daughter of An Unemployed Man, Late 60s
Hi Diane,
I’d be happy to talk with you by phone. And I’d be happy to talk to your father by phone also initially. I can’t make tailored recommendations based on one email and no direct conversation.
For People Over 50, Two Live Events In Osprey In March
If you’re in the Osprey, FL area in March, I’ll be speaking at two events called “Developing the Skills and Life Agility We’ll Need, After 50 It’s Up To Us”.
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An Unemployed Man In His Later 60s, My Dad Needs Help
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Tagged being stuck, going back to work, isolation, retired, unemployed after 50, wrongful termination
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One Week Of Paying More Attention To Love After 50
There is a place in our neighborhood (Palm Heights, elevation 14’) I think of as The Sign Of The Heart. It isn’t a geographic place. It appears suddenly in those instants when I am paying attention and realize, “Oh! There’s love again. How reassuring and nutritious!”
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Tagged love after 50, love over 50, marriage after 50, valentine's day
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A Woman’s Pursuit of Her Dreams and Quality of Life After 50
There she stood just inside our front door with her hands on her hips. “You keep writing about other people’s After 50 stories,” she said. “Mine is different and it deserves telling, too.”
Pushing past me she settled into a chair in our living room, said, “OK. Help me.”
“OK. I’ll play,” I said sitting down opposite her.
“Who are you?”
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Tagged after 50, over 50, personal reinvention, quality of life
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Retirement And The TV Remote
I received the following email from a good friend and highly active, admirable woman: “Haven’t seen you do anything on retirement. Especially men who most of their ideas on retirement is having a full time relationship with the T.V.
“Lord help if the remote gets lost.”
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