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The Apprentice traded on Donald’s image as the brash, self-made dealmaker, a myth that had been the creation of my grandfather five decades earlier and that astonishingly, considering the vast trove of evidence disproving it, had survived
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“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.”
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
“Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path, but once people begin to pass, a way appears.”
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
“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.”
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
“The rise of unretirement is good news for the economy’s vitality, the material well-being of individuals in life’s third stage, and for shoring up the financial health of the social safety net.”
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
“I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”
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Bryan ’s 2024 Year in Books
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