Work and jobs -- where is Studs Terkel today?
Will the next mid-life crisis be at 75? Sixty is the new Sixty, says Marc Freedman. Attending a recent event, I was an audience member exhorted to consider the ever-greater expansion of time available to make sure that it is time well-lived. What does that mean in the context of life’s purpose, whether we are prepared to competently approach our very long retirement years (on the one hand) or will we have an encore career or two? He quoted the comment of an older adult about their potentially very long future: "I’m on my next-to-last dog." Working part time – is that a next-to-last career? Volunteering – is that a career? In one session I heard word 'work' used for effort that is "paid or unpaid." How mangled is our language that volunteering without pay is now called working?