Most of us were told to stay in school and get a good education. After that, it was find a decent job, work hard, and then enjoy a safe and quiet retirement. However, statistics show that only a fraction of us truly enjoy their retirement, for the following reasons:
* Not enough retirement money
* Cut off from the creative work place
* To old to do what you really wanted to do
* Health problems
50 years ago working at a company was safe; however, this concept is completely outdated in our fast-growing information age. Nowadays, youd better watch out; your workplace might be monitored as to whether you could be replaced by something cheaper, or even worse, completely automated. Today, productivity and expanding profits for shareholders are almost the only forces that drive corporations and companies. You as a worker are just a small wheel in the gear box, which at any moment could be re-assembled with fewer parts.
Knowing this causes fear. Many would rather work while sick than risk losing their job. For some, the pressure becomes almost unbearable, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. To compound the problem, we shop, spending...