there’s no point in idealizing this. For every dream deferred and then pursued, there’s someone whose dream was to work in perpetuity at a job as out of reach as youth. For every person who gladly continues to work, there is another forced back into a workplace he thought he’d earned the right to leave, dragged out of bed and into the car by a sharp drop in savings or pension. For every person who believes she’s gotten a chance at a third act, there is one who feels cast aside.
