Retire Retirement

CHAPTER TWO

Challenge Your Assumptions—and Your Employer’s

Changes in today’s world are expanding the options you and other Boomers face. Your life choices are being transformed in four fundamental and exciting ways:

• Prolonged economic opportunity: The shifting demographic trends mean that adults over fifty are finally, for the first time since agrarian days, not just accepted into the world of broadly defined “work” outside the home, but truly needed there. The skills and knowledge you have will be essential to the continuing success of major economies around the world.
• Increasingly flexible and “people-friendly” ways of working: The way work gets done and the relationship between “employers” and “employees” (if those terms will even be relevant) ...