It's official: I will soon be a baby-boomer collecting Social Security
When "super-wife" and I left the local Social Security office yesterday, the question hit me like a brick.
"Does this make me a senior citizen," I asked her as we drove out of the parking lot? I had just provided the final information to start receiving benefits in late October about one month after my 62nd birthday. I am a member of the first class of baby-boomers born in the first year right after the end of World War II.
We are a large demographic group that has seen our parents transition through these changes from an everyday job to retirement to Social Security. Along with these changes comes the challenge of re-engineering your identity and your purpose.
For the past few years when asked about my age, I'd quip that I'm a senior citizen in-training. It was an easy answer that usually got a few chuckles and didn't require me to think much about the new chapter of my life that had been opened.
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