Retire Retirement

CHAPTER THREE

Sort Through Your Options

I hope you are convinced that past experience will prove a very poor predictor of the future. It just doesn’t make sense to pattern your postsixty years on how you saw your parents’ generation spending theirs. Your time will vary from theirs in its duration, in the nature of relationships among generations, and in the opportunities available. You also, in all likelihood, have very different interests and aspirations.

Let’s recap:

• Your logical horizon for work is not five or ten more years; it is more likely thirty years.
• Age fifty or sixty is not a time to begin winding down; this is a time for exploring new options.
• Participating in work is very likely to be more comfortable, convenient, and therefore ...