Never retire – Gail Minogue

Aging Out–Living Well to Age 120

Today’s news covers a growing world-wide concern of a world’s population. Although most of the articles and conversations are about China’s drop in population, the developed democracies are in much the same boat as China. Aging demographics are a seen as a source of national weakness. The industrialized countries are expected to age substantially in the decades ahead. Source of information on this issue can be found at https://ourworldindata.org/ .

If countries are smart, they will replenish their young populations with immigration. Of course, domestic political reluctance can be overcome but it is only a stop-gap measure. Even Africa’s population is falling at an accelerated pace. In 1990 the average African woman was expected to have 6 children. Today that is down to 4 and the drop is accelerating. Source https://noahpinion.substack.com/

Part of the world-wide problem is the acceptance of a retirement age that is no longer workable in a …

Gail Minogue Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10 Comments

What Are Your Career Plans for Ages 60 – 90?

I listen to the reports of retirees returning to the workplace again. I hear bragging points of people retiring at ages 45 to 50. They create books and workshops on how to retire early as if it is a goal in life to retire early. Some of the financial articles are on people retiring by 30. Wow, and then what?

There are many conversations about retiring now. Many left the workforce because it seemed like a good time to do it and the extra money in 20 and 21 gave permission to do that. Many never should have been in the careers they were in in the first place. Approximately 1 1/2 million people retired out due to the pandemic. Now, however, many are finding out that they retired too early and need the extra monies or they are bored, or they feel unproductive. In retrospect, retirement is a man-made …

Gail Minogue Thursday, April 21, 2022 12 Comments

Lessons Learned at 80 Years of Age

No, I’m not 80 yet but if the good Lord is willing, I will be. It is definitely an age of reckoning. It’s the age the young think of as decrepit and the middle age try to push away as much as possible. The main thing to focus on as we age, is what have you learned over this time and what can you contribute to society from all that you have learned.

I have said in previous writings that our Soul assesses itself every 7th birthday and downloads all that it learned during the previous 7 years. It then moves to another state of awareness. This pattern is repeated every 7th birthday beginning at age 7 and will continue to influence you at each important 7 years thereafter. We can be 77 or 83 and go through another Soul cycle. These are very important birthdays.

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Gail Minogue Wednesday, October 17, 2018 6 Comments

Create Your Own Business–Especially as You Get Older

This is such a great time to create your own business and brand. Society will look at this time period and realize it was

the Age of the Entrepreneur. With manufacturing jobs and government jobs shrinking, the work force is in complete chaos as it shrinks in some areas and specializes in others. We are not becoming a worker-less society but it can sure look scary as we see our old positions taken over by technology. Even this morning’s radio program was talking about letting go of more grocery clerks at the check out stands and using the scanning machines to check yourself out of the stores.

The grocery chain “Fresh and Easy” is completely automated with a few people standing by the check out stands to assist you if you have a problem scanning your groceries. It has been successful in teaching us the wave of the future. More …

Gail Minogue Thursday, March 15, 2012 1 Comment