When we retire we often pretend that we're still working according to one Harvard academic.
Search the word"retirement" on the internet and your screen is filled with images of silver-haired folk dancing in their kitchens, surfing, getting into ridiculous yoga postures and cuddling grandchildren.
"We need to think about who we will be - who we want to be when our formal career ends. The people in our study who do that, tend to have a smoother transition."Retirement can give us more time to spend with family but it can also leave us feeling under-utilisedOne of the most revealing parts of the research came when they asked retirees how they described themselves.
"We asked them why they do this and they say it's because they don't want to be seen as someone who is out to pasture. One person said 'I don't want to be seen as yesterday's news I want to be the news right now'."'Wonderland of work' He sees denying older people their place in this"wonderland" as wrong, especially in countries with mandatory retirement ages.Mario Vargas Llosa writes every day but can those who have more physical jobs also work longer?
If you're a writer or an economist then working longer might be more possible than for those whose jobs are very physical. "Sometimes we talk about grey riots or silver riots taking place. If you raise the retirement age then people who expected to retire in one, two, three or four years, [then suddenly] they're not able to - because you've just changed the age at which they collect their pension.
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