How to Avoid Burnout in a 60-Year Career
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This is a special edition of your Money Briefing for Wednesday, September 27th. I'm J.R. Whelan for The Wall Street Journal. Welcome to the third installment in our special series on the 60-year career, something younger workers are likely to have to navigate. So far in our series, we've talked about the reality that the traditional retirement age of 65 isn't a reality at all.
Today, most jobs are based on knowledge. So if we look at knowledge workers in many jobs, the evidence suggests that we're peaking in our late 60s or early 70s.
and how workers need to start financing their longer life and longer career now by taking advantage of retirement plans like 401ks.
So let's say a company offers 5% match. So if somebody can set aside 5% of their income, we're already talking about 10%. And that adds up over a period of time.
But as the saying goes, money isn't everything. Today, we'll examine how you can keep working and working and working... without burning out.
It's okay to take a career break and enjoy what that career break offers.
You got to sort of pace yourself, right? Because if you just cook it, you know, into your 20s and 30s, then what's going to be left in the tank later on?
Coming up, we'll talk to Wall Street Journal columnist Callum Borshers about how finding work-life balance now can prevent burnout later. And we'll hear from the head of a program that helps people reenter the workforce and make it to the finish line of a 60-year career. That's after the break.
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How does a 60-year career change expectations for younger workers?
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Ah, graduation day. You finally have that college degree and are ready to take on the real world. But there are plenty of unknowns. Where are you going to work? Where are you going to live? Maybe how are you going to pay off your student loans? But there's another unknown that you probably haven't considered. Are you prepared to work for 60 years?
I don't think that young workers truly know what they're in for because for so many, the working world is a new experience. It's hard to imagine, in concrete terms, doing anything for 60 years.
Callum Borshers writes the WSJ's On the Clock column that focuses on people's careers and their life outside of work.
It's like buying a house in a way. You signed a 30-year mortgage for this giant sum of money that sort of feels abstract. It's hard to imagine what it's going to be like to do it for 30 years or your career for 60 years.
But a career path that starts in your 20s and ends potentially in your 80s probably won't run along a straight line.
What evidence suggests knowledge workers peak later in life and need longer careers?
It's more dotted. The breaks in that line are literally breaks, taking some time away from your job, your career. People are likely going to have to step away from the workforce in order to have the stamina to tack on an extra decade or two of work later on. This falls under the category of work-life balance. A survey from Deloitte asked millennials and Gen Z what they admire most in a peer.
ahead of their house or their job title or any of these sort of like classic markers of success, what they most admire in Gen Z and millennials is somebody who appears to have great work-life balance.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:15
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How does a 60-year career change expectations for younger workers?
2:15–3:54
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What evidence suggests knowledge workers peak later in life and need longer careers?
3:54–5:04
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How should you plan the financial side of working into your 70s and beyond?
5:04–6:59
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Why might taking periodic career breaks prevent burnout over decades of work?
6:59–12:39
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