WEALTH after 50:
Starting from Stuck
2 Reasons You Know – 1 You Might Not
1
You’ve outgrown your job
- You’re bored – you can do it standing on your head
- You’ve stopped growing & learning new things
- You get nothing back, so you slowly stop caring
2
New rules
- AI is going to cut or change what you loved doing
- There’s no company loyalty left
- You’re expensive
3
What changed my thinking
- 56% of over-50s workers* in long-held jobs get laid off at least once before they’d planned to go
- Only 1/10 ever earn as much again*
*That’s ProPublica and the Urban Institute, working off the Health and Retirement Study – and it’s from 2018, which tells you something in itself. Nothing since has made it look optimistic.
Sounds scary!
This is actually a positive thing. Don’t read this as fear – read it as leverage. The plan you build today while the salary’s still landing is completely different from the plan you build the day after HR calls.
3 Options – Which Stage Are You At?
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