We're allowed to change our minds.
About work. Where we live. What we want. Who gets our time. What success looks like. And what we're willing to keep doing simply because we've always done it.
Something is shifting.
For a lot of Gen X, this stage of life comes with an unexpected question: What do I want now?
The kids may need us differently. Careers that once felt important may feel less interesting. Parents are getting older. Relationships change. Our bodies change. Our priorities definitely change.
That isn't necessarily a crisis. It might be useful information.
Life between now and retirement.
Do I still want this career?
Changing careers, earning differently and deciding how much ambition we actually want to carry forward.
Who am I now?
Starting over, trying things, creating things and becoming someone you didn't have time to become earlier.
The house got quieter.
Adult kids, changing family roles and figuring out what fills the space that parenting used to occupy.
Spend it differently.
The increasingly valuable currency that doesn't appear on a retirement statement.
Do I still want to live here?
Downsizing, relocating, simplifying and questioning whether the life you built still fits.
What makes life good?
Friends, creativity, community, experiences and remembering that optimization isn't the same thing as living.
What if the goal isn't simply to retire someday? What if the goal is to build a life you don't need to escape from first?
I'm figuring this out, too.
Gen X Retire isn't being written from the finish line.
I'm in the middle of these decisions myself: thinking about retirement, money, where I want to live, what work should look like and how much life I'm willing to postpone while I figure all of that out.
So sometimes I'll run the experiment, show you the numbers and tell you what actually happened.
Follow The Experiment
