Gen X has been called a lot of things—America's forgotten middle child, the latchkey kids, the overlooked in-betweeners sandwiched between Boomers and Millennials. But these days, they're being called something else: unprepared for retirement.
In a recent Reddit thread on r/GenX, one user asked a simple question: "Anyone else retiring soon?" The original poster, 58, said they were thinking about retiring at 59.5 and wondered if others their age were doing the same. "I don't remember ANY of my friends' parents retiring early," they wrote, noting how strange it feels to even consider it.
