THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN
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- toemaas1
I was under the impression that every generation goes through this. Change is the essence of the universe. Unless you work for some sort of municipal or education job that comes with some sort of respect for tenure, what profession doesn’t feed off of the energy of youth? Athletics, entertainment, creative, hell even like delivery drivers or labor. It seems that only the absolutely exceptional are thriving full force through the twilight of their careers. That’s why the idea of advanced age retirement seems so dumb! Especially as creatives! Make some good financial decisions early on. Take the big risks early on. That way, you can walk away from the commissioned work and spend the last 1/4 putting your experience to work (both in life experience and creative technique experience). Throw out as many artifacts as possible and showing the rest of the world that you existed + letting them know you understand and you know they exist too. Fight the dying of the light, but not in the corporate “sell-out” environment that you have already clung to for decades. It’s time to do the good shit and build your own communities. That’s what the younger crowd is already doing with you you anyway.