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.
Have you considered that some people might actually enjoy their jobs?
I’m not saying you do but that’s fine, but you’re pretty much saying that working has to be boring and undesirable, which it absolutely doesn’t have to be.
I’m saying nothing of the sort.
All I’m saying is that if you’re working at a job, you’re being paid to do what your employer asks you to do. If you happen to enjoy it, great, but that’s incidental, your only choice is to keep doing what they want or to stop and then stop getting paid.
If you don’t have to work, though, now you get to choose what to do with your time. And if the thing you’d most want to do with that power of choice is to give it right back to your employer, then idk…just seems sad to me.
What’s you opinion on volunteering then? Maybe people do it because it makes them feel good that they’re doing something they want to.
And they’re not getting paid to do it.
Why not do something you enjoy and get paid while you’re at it?