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Alexandria, VA

I teach in a small college that is stressed with falling enrollment. I have
younger colleagues who do not have tenure and whose jobs are in danger. I wish
I would go ahead and retire and help secure their positions, but I have at
least a year to go and then will need to work half time for awhile (that
should help). Does anybody else feel--as I do--that there is some irony in
young people struggling in a gig economy to pay off college loans and survive,
yet we elders cling to jobs even when we could volunteer? I am not judging
anyone's choices. I do not think we owe a duty of care--we all were young and
some of us still love what we are doing and have the benefit of years of
experience to make us good at it. But I do look at all the folks like me who
are at the height of our earning power and I wonder if we shouldn't at least
consider if we are ready moving aside and giving young people a shot at the
security we've enjoyed.

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