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.
I don’t think this is necessarily negative. I’m a millennial in that 44% and I’m in no hurry to retire because my profession is my identity. I hope I live a long time, but I also hope that I can work until I die. What would I even do if I didn’t work? I tried taking a year off once but I lasted a month before I was bored and looking for job.
(I don’t mean to sound smug - I get that I’m lucky. But I’m also not that unusual.)
In a way i can see why you think you’re lucky as you will suffer less in these terrible times, but damn, there are so many things I want to do in life that I’ll run out of time before I run out of things.
I am also a millenial and have a decent non-shitty job, but I’d drop that in a second if I didn’t need it. It takes such a chunk of my life.
How very sad for you.
Eh, no one says “how sad” when a person’s Identity is creating art. I’m an engineer so I create practical things, but that doesn’t mean I have less passion for what I do.
Having passion for something and using it as the basis of your identity are two very different things. If a painter says that painting is their identity, yes, I would say that was sad too.
What would you say is a good basis for one’s identity?
Why should any one thing be your whole identity?