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Gen Xers Dominate Uncertain US Job Market
Businessadvisor-perspectives19d ago

Gen Xers Dominate Uncertain US Job Market

Amid an uncertain job market, Americans in their 50s, identified as Gen Xers, are working at unprecedented rates, becoming key players in the current economic landscape.

I'm 39 but just started contributing to a 401(k) account. I have what I call 'retirement planning paralysis.'
FinancewsjBusiness Insiderforbes+1Yahoo1mo ago4 sources

I'm 39 but just started contributing to a 401(k) account. I have what I call 'retirement planning paralysis.'

The author has always struggled to plan for retirement. Courtesy of Emily Achler In my 20s and 30s, I tried to live in the present and ignored retirement planning. Now that I'm about to turn 40, I've started contributing to a 401(k), but I'm behind. I still have to combine my past retirement accounts, but I'm fighting retirement planning paralysis. I'm 39, and my retirement plan is haphazard, chaotic, and borderline nonexistent. I feel a lot of shame around this fact because I should know b...

Why does admitting you’re ambitious feel so wrong for gen Xers like me?
CultureThe Guardian1mo ago

Why does admitting you’re ambitious feel so wrong for gen Xers like me?

In the 90s, we internalised an ideal of cool that appeared nonchalant and effortless. Now, young people are unafraid to say they want something and are going to work hard to get it Oh no, striving is cool now. “Never stop grinding and listen … Stop doing anything else but working,” as Pharrell Williams told the Grammys audience last month. The Times recently announced that “trying really hard and talking about it” was in, typified by Timothée Chalamet’s continued commitment to the “pursuit of...