In most vocations, the retired veterans can teach you a lot.
Construction workers: "Move into a desk job before your body gives out."
Teachers: "You can't depend completely on your pension when you retire."
The thing is, we don't really have this in Web 2.0.
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The older folks can warn the younger folks about the pitfalls of what they're doing now:
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These folks were at the advent of Web 2.0:
@kevinrose is 41@garyvee is 42@jasonfried is 44@ginab is 46@arrington is 48 They're not even in their 50s yet. We don't have a completely picture from beginning → retirement.2 replies 3 retweets 19 likesShow this thread -
What age do you think you'll retire from digital work? What do you think retirement will look like for web professionals? What factors are we not considering?
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I assume that I’m going to be day-to-day productive into my 60s and sufficiently mentally acute to function as an advisor or investor longer than that. I expect retirement won’t look terribly different than for other professionals, except with more optionality on hobbling it.
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