The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life
HR writer Sarah McAdams reviews the book The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life by Lee Eisenberg.
A few years ago, when Lee Eisenberg’s bestseller first came out, American workers had different priorities than they do today. “For tens of millions of middle-aged travelers, this is an odd moment, riddled with paradoxes. We are at once old and young, parents and kids, generally prosperous yet uneasy,” he writes in The Number
Well, it’s become weirder. And the label of “generally prosperous” rarer.
In 2006, many workers viewed their “number” — how much money one needs to feel secure forever after retirement — as the realization of their daydreams (traveling the world, spending days on the golf course, volunteering for a nonprofit, writing a novel, opening an inn).
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