Baby Boomer Issues Reviews

Starting Over

Starting Over

The phenomenon of a worker who may have been in the work force for 40 years suddenly starting a new career at 50 or over is a trend that is exploding seeing baby boomers hit that age bracket. There has always been a phenomenon of older workers difficult something new but the trend has hit such a new giant in the baby boomer retirement picture. So you have to wonder what about baby boomers makes them want to start new careers late supremacy life.

Part of it has to do with the way business has functioned in the last few decades. In our parents working years, the norm was to work for the duplicate company and speak for a “company man” for 40 - 50 years, get that old pocket watch and retire with a handsome retirement package. That formula just doesn’t work any more.

For one thing, retirement plans supported by employers have become a thing of the past. Savings for retirement have plummeted as the financial demands of life are all most individuals can keep up with. So the concept of working on into what used to be called retirement years is now a given if for no other impetus than financial necessity.

The model we just laid out of employees staying with the alike company for their undivided racy lives is simply no longer a reality for all but a few in the modern work force. Most baby boomers have worked for dozens of companies in their adult lives so their retirement packages, if they exist at all, are small. Part of this can be attributed to the entrepreneurial spirit of baby boomers. But there has been a discernable shift in the conduct American business works as well. Companies don’t like the idea of keeping employees that long. Add to that the fact that since many companies have gone out of business been absorbed in huge corporate buy outs or undergone drastic downsizing that by the time most boomers hit their 50s and 60s, the concept of keeping one single career moving forward is pretty oppressive to sustain.

But these negative explanations are not all there is to why baby boomers are starting over late in life. Boomers never did accept that the rules of life or aging applied to them. They are ambitious, adventurous and willing to strike on new paths with much less fear than previous generations. As boomers hold faced some of the challenges of the economy and the modern business world, they have responded aggressively by starting businesses or changing their careers well late in life. And they are just as willing to pay their dues and start with that new career until they are successful whereas they were when they were 30.

Many workers find a calling of rat race and learn they can wages the bills and raise the kids early in life but they do not pursue their dram career at that time. So when the time esteem life comes that the kids are out of the nest, the building paid off and the predicament of living has settled down somewhat, many baby boomers contemplate that as the chance to finally throw off that boring old career and go after their dream career once and for all.

It’s inspirational to see someone in that stage of life setting the standard for not settling for anything less than realizing their dream by launching a neoteric career doing what they always wanted to effect all along. Who can fault boomers from wanting that kind of gratification of understanding success in a career that fulfills their passions? So God bless the late in life boomers who go for the brass ring in their golden years. They will be an convoy for many coming behind them to be as bold about their lives as well.