Gen X has never really cared for rules. We’re the Ferris Bueller and Breakfast Club generation who thinks rules are for suckers and old people, right? But what does that mean for us now as we head toward retirement?

According to Caren Magill, the Gen Xer behind the Retire(ish) YouTube channel, retirement for the “forgotten generation” will bear little resemblance to the Boomers’. As Magill points out, “We were always very independent and borderline feral, so why would that change in retirement?”

“I find that Baby Boomers are probably the last generation of folks who get older in a very sort of templatized way,” says Magill. For the most part, Boomers had traditional career trajectories and bought houses along a traditional timeline. Many had pensions. Their road to retirement was pretty clear.

For Gen X, that road looks quite different. In fact, Doc’s line in Back to the Future pretty much sums it up: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”

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