Gen Z, Millennials, all of us, will miss Betty White. However, if we only remember her lifetime of work for the smiles that she brought to our faces, we may have missed her best role – how to live a long life, well. Here are four lessons we might glean from White's career & life.
suggests that even digital natives are likely to feel more than a little uncertain as tech advances at an unprecedented velocity. Sure, Gen Z and the Millennials were born into digital technology, but they weren’t born into tomorrow’s technology. Moreover, many of the industries that parents and teachers thought would provide ideal occupations are being radically transformed by tech making what we thought would be our career far different than we had planned.
Many of us were socialized to believe that you grew up to be something and you did that something, often for just a few employers, for 30 years, and then retired. Well, maybe, but not likely. Work will be longer than you think.
Think about the fact that Betty White was over 50 years old when she got her transformative role on the “Mary Tyler Moore Show.” The same decade that many people are told that they are approaching their ‘retirement red zone.’ Even today’s near-retirees need to prepare for a long retirement that is likely to be as many years as two-thirds of the average career. All of us need to prepare for a longer, vibrant, and ever-changing life. Gen Z and Millennials even more so.
We will all miss Betty White. However, if we only remember her lifetime of work for the smiles that she brought to our faces, we may have missed her finest role – how to live a long life, well.
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