I came across an interesting article on baby boomers and retirement, and it really made me start thinking about my own view of retirement planning as a boomer. I am a late boomer, still more than a decade from the traditional retirement age, so I have some time. But the article about retirement made me feel a bit less lonely and in panic, so I think it bears reviewing.

Boomers Plan To Work During Retirement

So if this age group still plans to work, then what is retirement anyway? Well, many do plan to leave their current job, and use their golden years to really pursue some dreams they had put on hold. They may want to write, start a business, or find flexible work that will allow them to spend more time on their hobbies or travel. They want some of the leisure of retirement, but do not require total retirement.

Do Boomers Want to Work During Retirement

They may have two motives for their future income earning plans.

Retirement savings and investments have not been built up enough for a comfortable lifestyle. This also has more than one root. Economic problems may have been one, but also longer lifespans mean that much more money could be required. So, like almost everything else about boomers, good news and bad news seem to come together! Of course, most are willing to exchange a need to have more income for the chance to live a longer and more productive life!

But also with this longer predicted healthy lifespan means that boomers want to stay challenged and active. They see people working in their 70′s and 80′s at jobs they enjoy as a chance to get out in the world and still benefit others. Other boomers were not able to fully realize goals when they were younger because of the demands of family life. Women, in particular, see retirement years as a chance to reach goals they may have put on hold because of children.

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A Baby Boomer past fifty, I am living testament to the upheavals wrought by detours in life. Undergoing a midlife renaissance mandated I make necessary changes in order to navigate my way again.  A bona fide pack rat, a mission to rid myself of debris and clutter became my battle hum and o-h-m-m-m: Simplify… 

Less is more…as in the art of post fifty gals applying makeup sparingly.  Elevating fine lines to rivulets and ravines by slathering on foundation is tantamount to botching the Watergate cover up.  No need to rim our lips in fire engine red either to promenade a crow’s nest of furrows.

 Purging my clothes closet of frivolous garments no longer fitting this impasse in my life proved most therapeutic. It did my heart good hauling bags over to the Salvation Army store.  Practicality reduced my wardrobe to active wear and jeans. Put quite simply, the recesses and nooks and crannies of my home are now organized.

A self-professed fragrance floozy, gutting my stable of the superfluous proved quite a challenge.  It meant scavenging through cupboards and storage boxes to summon my ladies-in-waiting. Sacrificing most of my glass goddesses for charitable transport entailed a melancholy prospect. I drew comfort knowing someone would readily adopt them for the song composed by their unique composition of notes. 

I felt the gnawing pangs of a pack rat when I stared down no less than ten plastic bins harboring decorations for every season and days of remembrance.  By then I had grown weary of streamlining so many areas of my life, I became an indiscriminate mercenary in ridding myself of the extraneous.  I actually ended up purchasing a miniature Christmas tree for my dining room table, having simplified myself silly.   

Alas, the bastion I least expected to simplify during my major event was the roster of friends I held in esteem. Nevertheless, I weeded my garden such that it has become a barren desert. Oftentimes the bonds of friendship are only as strong as their ties of similarity and sameness, driving home that any detour we take in life is primarily a solo journey.  That’s the plain and simple truth.

Eva Pasco is the author of Underlying Notes, Women’s Fiction for gals over 40, available at Amazon:

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More than a cocktail for hot flashes and fluctuating libido, Underlying Notes strews crumbs of callousness, blame, self-sacrifice, repression, and restlessness along the unmarked trails of intospection and reinvention weaving through Carla’s journey to find her own niche in the Second Act of Life.

Carla straddles the line separating the restrictive 50s from the permissive 60s.  She wrestles with the traumas of adolescence, sacrifices a career to assist her husband in his waste management company, and fantasizes about having a fling with hubby’s paesano.  Carla’s ongoing fragrance addiction offers incentive for her to find her own niche, while the ominous rose note in  Paloma Picasso  forces her to confront a troubled past, sort out matters of the heart, and come to terms with the tenets of her life.

Carla Matteo’s self-deprecating wit and candor navigate ther reader past Rhode Island’s affluent coastal communities, prominent landmarks, cherished institutions, and olive oil spills of the underworld.  Carla’s narrative is as multilayered as the fragrances she wears to permeate back stories that illuminate the present and surrender underlying secrets one morsel at a time.

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