Getting Old and Work - 3
Looking back on our last 2 posts on getting old and work, we left off with a stab at retirement - which for most, but not all, is a kind of "post-work" state. While we've posted on retirement recently, we'll focus on it from the point of view of getting old and work today. Are we confusing matters here? No. What we're driving at is t hose who retire from their life-long work that pays money and switch to work that doesn't necessarily pay anything. Sure, some retire from their "regular" full-time jobs and take on reduced or part-time work for money. That's not our focus here. We're talking about those to no longer work for pay but continue with some form of work. A good example of this that I've come across recently is boomers (older folks) who take up an endeavor that was and remained dear to their hearts during their years of working for pay. Two specific instances we'll consider is writing (novels, short stories, etc.) and compos...