Bryan

“For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A common expression among laid-off workers fifty-five years and older who are struggling to find work is “you don’t even exist.” You cobble a job here and a job there, always marginal to management. Apply for a job you’re well qualified for and you’ll probably never hear back from the employer.”
― Chris Farrell, Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

“A basic dividing line is age fifty,” says Edward Rogoff, economist at Baruch College, City University of New York. “You lose a good job at age fifty, the chances of getting another are small, so you do something else. You start your own business.”
― Chris Farrell, Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

“Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.”
― Richard Florida, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity