Boomers Who Don't Let Go - Have You Ever Visited One of Those Happy Valleys in Arizona?

It's in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that political analyst Karl Rove warns America that, as JFK had declared, the torch has to be passed to a new generation. 

Of course that means this: We boomers (who heard JFK's ringing rhetoric about generational shift when we were in school) should fade from chasing after and holding onto those big leadership positions in government. 

But that's just one kind of power we should be surrendering to younger generations. Or so those younger generations are telling us.

Meanwhile, though, the boomers with the power are not letting go.

Those stepping aside more often than not are being pushed aside by employers. That's in the service of cost-control. Older workers make too much. Their jobs can be performed by someone who would be happy to do all that for one-third the compensation. The career ends. They don’t know a way back. Typically they die relatively young.

In contrast there are the rest of us boomers who make it our mission to stay in the game. At least some kind of paid game. It doesn't have to be the one we spent the previous 40 years in.

We all know about Bob Iger who got himself back as CEO at Disney. It's supposed to be only for two years but I have a hunch Iger will figure out how to extend that.

Despite all the disappointments at Goldman Sachs and other financial empires those old white men aren't going anywhere.

Leon Black might have lost several official titles as a result of his business association with Jeffrey Epstein. He, however, is still making his presence felt through, like Greek god Zeus, throwing around thunderbolts of legalities. That guy saw to it that he was not going gently into the night. Legal games are fun and get media attention.

I am the oldest of the boomers. In 2014 I saw what retirement looked like, talked like, and walked like when I visited college acquaintance Kathleen Huebner in one of those communities in Arizona. The horror. Those I met gushed gleefully and compulsively about the careers they had given up. 

In July I launched my newest enterprise. As with previous startups, I’m obsessed.

We can't let go because there is nowhere to go, at least not anywhere where we can continue to have an identity.

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