Demetria Gallegos
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238 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard Aug 2023
Demetria Gallegos’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They are fulfilling that promise to keep working.
Many of them were inspired by examples around them, their parents, their mentors, their professors who kept working and showed a lot of benefits, especially cognitive and physical benefits for staying in the workplace.
In other cases, they were dissuaded from retirement by examples around them from their own families or friends.
people who stepped away from the workplace and then just could not necessarily find something new to latch on to and did not necessarily thrive in their retirement years.
So in one of the cases I spoke to, a woman who had stepped out of her career earlier in order to raise kids and then later to serve as a caregiver for a family member has just now returned at almost age 60, and she's raring to go.
She wants to make up for lost time.
She doesn't see an end to this current trajectory she's on, but she did just buy a lake cabin and is planning to continue her career from that setting.
Yes, we did include people who failed.
feel that the stock market is too volatile, for example, for them to feel comfortable financially without an income.
A couple people felt they wouldn't have the same health care choices as retirees that they would as long as they stayed in the workforce.
In other cases, they simply could not fathom with our expanded lifespans these days what they would do with their time over the course of decades.
I was touched to hear an example of a doctor in Colorado who continues to work because he is a widower, and he does not have a wife with whom he wants to spend those retirement years at this point.
There are certainly so many personal factors.
I do think that a couple are trying to set examples for their children.
One person mentioned that their father-in-law at 90 is still working, and so he doesn't feel like he can step away yet just to save face.
I think while our idea of retirement continues to evolve, our idea of the work life also changes, especially after the pandemic when you have technology allowing folks to work well past their original plans because their setting is now flexible.
I feel as though people are now feathering these two phases in their life together in a potentially much more fulfilling way, one that is very financially sustaining as well as in terms of their energy and their sense of purpose.
I think one of the strongest impressions I got from this group is that they imagine their retirement years will last for quite a while.
They are expecting to live much longer than their parents and grandparents did.
They want to make sure this is a productive time in their life and not just a time for sitting on the sofa watching TV.
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