So, Tom Brady is finally retiring. The longtime National Football League quarterback has, of course, made such announcements before. Maybe this time it’s for real? We’ll see.
It’s understandable that it’s so hard to say goodbye. Plenty of people with less-glamorous jobs have trouble retiring. And about half of Americans actually don’t retire voluntarily; research led by Boston University’s Alicia Munnell has found that 1 in 2 of us gets forcibly retired, whether because of a health crisis, the need to step back to care for an aging spouse or when we get laid off and can’t find a new job.
In our younger years, many of us look forward to the day when we’ll be able to step away from the rise-and-grind effort of full-time work. Then, as that day nears, we push it further and further into the future.
