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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ng Bee Kia, an 80-year-old retiree living in Singapore. It has been translated from Mandarin and edited for length and clarity.I was in my 20s when I started weightlifting.At that time, I was working at the warehouse for a local supermarket…
Last fall, my mother was diagnosed with cancer, and, seemingly minutes later, my father had some heart problems and ultimately suffered a stroke.I knew I was inching toward simultaneously caring for my young kids and aging parents. Suddenly, I was squarely in the sandwich generation.I now had to deal with the…
I’m 39, and my retirement plan is haphazard, chaotic, and borderline nonexistent. I feel a lot of shame around this fact because I should know better.My first job out of college was at PBS, where I opened a TIAA retirement account at 22. Somewhere in the intervening 18 years, the…
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For some, retirement means relaxation. For Jordan Hendrickson, retirement means debt.”I don’t have any retirement savings,” Hendrickson, 54, told Business Insider. “I don’t see any other way than working up until my last day.”Hendrickson received her doctorate in psychology in 2013, bringing her total student-loan balance to about $350,000, including…
