Exactly! I want to keep thinking/talking about this, especially for women who come to the end of a big, salaried corporate job but still have work they want to do. It’s a little easier for an entrepreneur like me to blur the retirement line, not that I’m close to it yet! Thanks, as ever, for reading.
Several things conspired to send me into retirement before I was ready, I think I had more to contribute and I think our model is seriously flawed: Prepare for a career from birth to thirty-five, save for retirement between thirty-five and sixty-five, then live on those savings (plus whatever the working people are contributing to social security) from sixty-vie to ninety-five, then die. Can we really afford to have most of us contributing to the economy for approximately one-third of our lives? ON THE OTHER HAND: It seems wrong to me that so many of our institutions are being run by seventy-somethings while so many of our forty-somethings are still paying off student loans. I do think we need to have those young people in positions of leadership. I say YES to coming up with new models.
I agree that the model is broken, especially for folks like you with so much to give. AND there are places where older folks need to get out of the way (Congress, cough, cough). I'll keep looking for new models ... let me know what you see!
thank you, leanne. this is a great conversation. seems to me that career women have often been led into a male-oriented model of thinking about retirement... one either works, or not. maybe there is an opportunity to create some new models for the women who will be in your shoes one day?
Exactly! I want to keep thinking/talking about this, especially for women who come to the end of a big, salaried corporate job but still have work they want to do. It’s a little easier for an entrepreneur like me to blur the retirement line, not that I’m close to it yet! Thanks, as ever, for reading.
Several things conspired to send me into retirement before I was ready, I think I had more to contribute and I think our model is seriously flawed: Prepare for a career from birth to thirty-five, save for retirement between thirty-five and sixty-five, then live on those savings (plus whatever the working people are contributing to social security) from sixty-vie to ninety-five, then die. Can we really afford to have most of us contributing to the economy for approximately one-third of our lives? ON THE OTHER HAND: It seems wrong to me that so many of our institutions are being run by seventy-somethings while so many of our forty-somethings are still paying off student loans. I do think we need to have those young people in positions of leadership. I say YES to coming up with new models.
I agree that the model is broken, especially for folks like you with so much to give. AND there are places where older folks need to get out of the way (Congress, cough, cough). I'll keep looking for new models ... let me know what you see!
thank you, leanne. this is a great conversation. seems to me that career women have often been led into a male-oriented model of thinking about retirement... one either works, or not. maybe there is an opportunity to create some new models for the women who will be in your shoes one day?