Dad Was a Retirement Trailblazer

My dad was a pioneer. When he retired from his government job, he and my mom left the family home in Denver and moved to an active adult community in the Texas Hill Country outside Austin. While golf and leisure activities were part of his life, whenever my brother and sister and I would have commented on your retirement, both parents would strongly exclaim: "We are not retired." And in fact the father was retired in the traditional sense of the word. He became passionate about computers in the sixties. Many hours of his retirement the week were spent working on various projects for the development of computer programs related to geology, his second love. My father was not content to spend his life engaged in leisure and pleasure activities. Even through ten years of fighting cancer, his last days were spent repairing his old Apple Mac so my mom will be able to use it.

the concept of retirement came during the depression thirties. Before that time, people worked until they died. In an attempt to get young unemployed men back into the workforce, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress passed the Law on Social Security in 1935. Bound by a lifetime ago, Social Security provides financial well-being of workers passed their prime. But it is still affected by it are still felt today. For the first time in history, older people, who had previously been wise community, has become marginalized and unappreciated.

great builder and marketer Del Webb has changed those feelings in the early 1960s created the concept of free time of retirement. No more rock left in a chair on the front porch, working class seniors can now spend their time on the golf course and recreation center in the company. Retirement shifted from one of sitting around waiting to die on the term "golden years", filled with entertainment and activities. The concept of retirement is generally held until recently, when baby boomers began to knock on the door of the third age.

Not content to follow in the footsteps of their parents, baby boomers will reinvent retirement in a whole new way. Many things have changed since their grandparents retired. life expectancy has jumped from 47 in 1900-77 now. I continue to grow. Baby boomers have not worked in physically demanding jobs of their parents and grandparents came. Baby boomers approach retirement as the healthiest, wealthiest and most active group that has ever walked the planet.

Although more than seventy percent of baby boomers report they want to continue working past retirement age, many want to be a shift in the work that is more rewarding. The problem of many mature adults face they do not know what it is you want to do.

This is, of course, assumes that people who have been successful over the years, the Prime Minister will be equally successful in the elderly. Unfortunately, without planning, there is no guarantee that it will be rewarding the Third Age, particularly for people who are successful. Many things are to succeed in their best years are no longer present or as important in the elderly. President of the focus on what you have gained, whether the status of the profession, a comfortable lifestyle, or support system. These things shift from retirement, both in their importance and availability.