Unlike many Americans compelled into early retirement by company restrictions, the average nevertiree often has no one forcing his hand. If 106-year-old investor Irving Kahn, head of his own family firm, wants to keep coming to work every day, whos going to stop him? Seventy-eight-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs job security is guaranteed in the Constitution.
It may seem that these elderly people are trying to cheat death. In fact, they are. And its working, Howard Friedman, a professor at UC Riverside, found in his research that those who work hardest and are successful in their careers often live the longest lives. "People are generally being given bad advice to slow down, take it easy, stop worrying, and retire to Florida," he says. He described one study participant, still working at the age of 100, who was recently disappointed to see his son retire. "
Were beginning to see a change in how people view retirement," says George Leeson, co-director of the Institute of Population Ageing at Oxford. Where once retirement was seen as a brief reward after a long struggle through some miserable job, it is now akin(近似)to being cast aside. What Leeson terms "the Warren Buffett effect" is becoming more broadly appealing as individuals come to "view retirement as not simply being linked to economic productivity hut also about contribution."
Observers are split on whether this is a wholly good thing. On the one hand, companies and financial firms can benefit from the wisdom of a resilient(坚韧的)chief. On the other, the new generation can find it more difficult to advance—an argument that typically holds little sway to a nevertiree.
What do we learn about the so-called "nevertirees"?
A.They are passionate about making a fortune,
B.They have no choice but to continue working.
C.They love what they do and choose not to retire.
D.They will not retire unless they are compelled to.
第1题
Billy Budd was a short novel written by the American novelist ---.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B.Herman Melville
C.Walt Whitman
第2题
Nathaniel Hawthorne was most famous for his
A.The Last of the Mohicans
B.The Adventures of Torn Sawyer
C.Moby Dick
D.Scarlet Letter
第3题
A、Washing Irving, James Cooper
B、Nathaniel Hawthorne
C、Herman Melville
D、Edgar Allan Poe
第4题
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B.Herman Melville
C.Edgar Ellan Poe
第5题
A、Nathaniel Hawthorne
B、Henry David Thoreau
C、Benjamin Franklin
D、Ralph Waldo Emerson
第6题
A、Washington Irving
B、Nathaniel Hawthorne
C、William Cullen Bryant
D、James Fenimore Cooper
第7题
Nathaniel Hawthorne was most famous for ______.
A.Annabel Lee
B.The Scarlet Letter
C.The Raven
D.Moby Dick
第8题
Nathaniel Hawthorne was most famous for ______.
A.Annabel Lee
B.The Scarlet Letter
C.The Raven
D.Mob), Dick
第9题
Nathaniel Hawthorne was most famous for ______.
A.Annabel Lee
B.The Scarlet Letter
C.The Raven
D.Moby Dick
第10题
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B.Benjamin Franklin
C.James Fenimore Cooper
D. Washington Irving
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