Look, I'm a Boomer (and a late one, at that), like a good majority of us around here. I hated having to retire when I did because of age and disability. But at least I realized I needed to do it, even if I thought I could still do the job with some accommodations that they didn't want to provide (like telework). But it's time now for our generation to step aside, help elect and mentor the next generation behind us. They have new ideas for this new world we live in. Our ideas don't work so well anymore... WE are not of this age. We live in, many of us may still work in it (by choice or need), but I think if we're honest, a lot of what is happening... especially digitally... goes beyond us at times. We need the young people in office to choose their own roads for the country. We're doing them no favors by refusing to step aside.
I'm certainly not ageist... like I said, I'm a well-worked grandma myself. I'm also disabled with 2 chronic autoimmune illnesses and a back then has me bent over much of the time. Gravity and I are not friends. I go through horrible periods where I feel like I'm neither needed nor wanted but superfluous today. There's so much I can't do, it's hard to see what I can do that means anything to anyone. I understand the mindset not to leave what was a large part of your life. But each generation has to do it; it's past our time, IMO.
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