Being Is Meaningful Work
For many years, my mantra has been, “Meaningful work, paid or unpaid, through the concluding breath.” For most of that time, I’ve been thinking nearly locomote every bit purposeful doing. During the concluding twenty years since I shifted my professional person focus on life-work planning from youth to older adults, I’ve wanted to counter ageism yesteryear showcasing the productivity together with potential of older adults who are teaching together with learning, doing together with caring for themselves together with others. The Census Bureau described all of us nether historic catamenia sixteen or over 65 every bit “dependents.” It seemed of import to exhibit a unlike perspective. Whatever their age, people who were doing meaningful locomote that tapped their skills together with interests – whether paid or unpaid — were benefiting both themselves together with their communities. So at historic catamenia 69, inwards 2001, I completed my PhD inwards Minnesota amongst a survey s...