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.

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.

    • ArbitraryValue
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.