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Generation X-ers (born 1965-80) are re-evaluating their quality of life, and many are deciding to quit their jobs and seek adventure, with no plan to ever work again.
This is quite interesting. I’m really surprised that so many apparently have enough money to coast through the next decades with no income.
That's precisely what I would like to do - either on a boat or in a big camper van/mobile home. In fact, I once had a mobile home and went all over the UK then down to Spain through France to Gibraltar and coming all the way back through Belgium and Germany.
Bloody fantastic and total freedom.
Splinter , I’ll bet you were in your 20’s or early 30’s when you did that? It sounds as if your escape from the real world lasted much longer than mine (at 25), which was just 6 months of rail pass travel in Southern Europe and England from my bedsitter base in Oxford, before returning to a job I’d been tired of, but which turned into a welcome destination after I’d spent my last franc, peseta, lira, and shilling.
What generally stops people in their 40’s and 50’s from following a Peter Pan dream of freedom and adventure is that splash of ice water in the face: What happens when I run out of money? If I need a job in the future, will I be able to get one? Should I be saving some money for unforeseen illness, disability, old age?
The Telegraph article and the numerous reader comments are especially nteresting because of insight they give into the reasons, rationales, and rationalizations of those answering the midlife call to chuck it all and hit the open road.
I was born in the 50's...does that make me a Generation w-er?
Sorry, UK Man , but you’re a Boomer. Born between 1946 and 1964. Too old to be in the current midlife crisis!
Boomers who escaped the rat race seem to have done so through their own ingenuity, which they parlayed into personal fortunes, or through marrying well. No need to quit the job and escape!
