Never Retire - Poor Working Conditions And Retirement
How would you describe the conditions you work under?
Sometimes academic research seems obvious.
This doesn’t necessarily make it useless or bad.
We often need others to remind us of the obvious.
Because it’s easy to fall into a rut—especially at work—and not even realize you’re there.
It’s easy to go through the motions with work, unaware of how much it’s hurting you or negatively impacting some aspect of your future.
Anyhow, I will not go into great detail on the results of this study in the journal Health and Place—
“Routes to retirement, working conditions and quality of life in comparative perspective.”
You can access the full text of the article here for free.
However, I will point out two things.
One, the main conclusion “that poor late-working life working conditions was associated with exit routes with high reliance upon income from different transfer schemes.”
In other words, your work sucks late in life and you can’t wait to get out.
So you get out because it sucks only to rely on less-than-desirable financial programs (think Social Security) because you’re not really ready to retire.
Makes sense. Also pretty obvious.
From one situation that sucks to another situation that sucks.
Two, the more useful part of the study to help drive home how assessing the state of the work you do matters as much as anything as you prepare to Never Retire or even go the traditional retirement route.