In recent decades, the number of octogenarians in the U.S. workforce has soared.
Last year, when Bob Hyde was 78, he stood in front of a mirror and decided it was time to retire. Hyde, who lives in Rio Rancho, N.M., ran his own accounting company and was glad to be free of deadlines, payroll, and hiring. He learned to make sourdough bread and kimchi, and began teaching himself clarinet.
That makes sense, given that American life expectancy has steadily increased — from 47 for a baby born in 1900 to 68 in 1950 to 79 in 2019,Once a person survives childhood and young adulthood, the outlook improves even more. When Biden was born, in 1942, life expectancy was 66.
Stuart Goldstein, 80, started working at Hecht’s department store in the District when he was 14; he is now a lawyer working 40 hours a week in Miami and has no intention of stopping. “I’ve seen friends who have sort of retired and deteriorated mentally, and I don’t want that to happen to me,” said Goldstein, who is also a pilot and flies small planes on weekend. “I remain mentally alert while I work.
That can make precision pursuits such as math more challenging, but it can also loosen up one’s brain associations, making it easier to see the big picture, and to improvise and, which could explain why jazz musicians and abstract artists often do some of their best work in older age, he said.
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