Forgotten Detail

One major detail not often discussed in the whole healthcare debate is the fact that we are living A LOT longer - and healthier.

So yeah...it's expensive...but preferable to the alternative.

Good details in the article about re-thinking the idea of "career."

But changing that picture means exchanging today’s architectural metaphor, “building a career,” for another one: adaptive reuse. This is the human-capital equivalent of turning industrial lofts into apartments, factories into medical schools, power plants into art museums, or saw mills into shopping centers. Your original career may be economically obsolete, or you may just want a change, but your knowledge and experience still have their charms. Instead of equating success with a steady progression of better-paying jobs, each related to the previous one, this model emphasizes taking on new challenges and making new contributions, even if that means going back to school, taking a pay cut, or starting as a trainee when you’re middle-aged.

I fully intend to have a 15 year screenwriter career followed by owning a deli. Not sure yet how one informs the other, but I'm sure there is something.