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RaleighNCDUer

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Tue Dec-26-06 08:00 PM
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33. An aspect of the aging of the boomers.

When I was 30, I took all kinds of risks. Few of them paid off, except in experience.

Now, at 53, I see retirement looming ahead and risks are much harder to accept - I have no cushion against job loss and am in the peculiar situation of having the most stable work I've had in my life, due to those former risks, and fearing the loss of this most stable, but inadequate, work. In my 30s I didn't worry about my health. In my 50s, the thought of risking my health insurance in completely untenable.

And I am but one of 87 million of my generation.

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