Rachel Feintzeig

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1,709 appearances 29 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2019 last heard Nov 2024

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why You Should Challenge Those Self-Imposed Career and Life Deadlines · 13 Jul 2023 podcast

It's just made a lot of the stuff a lot harder. voice-verified

Income inequality. voice-verified

There's a lot of things that have happened to the economy over decades that have just made hitting a lot of these milestones a lot harder for people, students. voice-verified

loan debt. voice-verified

A lot of this isn't our fault. voice-verified

We're just in a different financial situation than our parents or grandparents were. voice-verified

So for example, in the Stanford study that I was mentioning, it found that all generations coalesced around a few milestones in your late 20s. voice-verified

So they agreed that like around 26 is the right age to get married, around 27 is the right time to buy a house, and around 28 is the right moment to start a family. voice-verified

But we're not actually doing those things on that timeline anymore, most of us at least. voice-verified

In a lot of cases, our parents did have it easier or just different. voice-verified

When I was talking to this professor at Stanford, she made the point, if you go back many decades, people graduated from high school and that was their education. voice-verified

And then they went straight to work. voice-verified

And it made sense to do all of these things in this order, in this kind of compressed timeframe. voice-verified

But now our education opportunities are so much greater. voice-verified

The way we think about relationships are different. voice-verified

What we want from our lives are different. voice-verified

And what we can have is different because our lifespans are getting so much longer. voice-verified

And middle age is changing, too. voice-verified

Everything from Botox to fertility treatments to joint replacement surgeries have really evolved over the last few decades. voice-verified

And so you have 60-year-olds who are in better physical shape than their parents were at 40. voice-verified

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