A short monologue from Marcel Proskow (uploaded by Richard Canfield) addressing the emotional and practical challenges people face in their 60s regarding retirement. The speaker discusses age-based layoffs and ‘youth movements’ in corporations, friends forced out or asked to accept reduced roles/pay, and the identity loss and fear many feel when leaving long-held careers — contrasted with entrepreneurial impulses in later life.
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Think that what's happening is that this is where my true entrepreneurial skills are coming out. Because I have been listening to a lot of my friends over the last several years in my age group who are bemoaning this word retirement, who are saying, geez, Marcel, you know, I'm not needed at my business anymore. I have friends who worked for corporations who do a youth movement, and they go, you're in your 60s. You're too old. We're letting you go. You make too much money. Right? And it's like, I don't want to go. I'm happy here. Yeah, but do you want to work for half? Well, of course, nobody wants to do that. So, you know, they. They get faced with all these difficult things, and people struggle with, can I afford to? Or what am I going to do? Because my sense of identity is tied up in what I've been doing all my life. And especially the people who don't want to let go, I find those are the saddest ones, because they don't want to let go. And yet they're not the. They're not really doing themselves much of a favor, but they're scared of what they're going to do when they do not go to the office anymore.