Who wants to work forever? With morose posts full of doom and gloom, Twitter-using millennials have been expressing their fear of what comes after office life. Using the #millennialretirementplans, they’ve been discussing the once-thought-to-be golden years.
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The cloud of despair is a while off. The term millennials refers to those born between 1980 and 2000, so they are at most 37 years old; the average retirement age globally is 66 and increasing every year.
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To get a glimpse into how UAE-dwellers fare on this spectrum of future distrust, we asked a few local millennials about what they think about retirement. Here’s what they had to say.
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– Hiba Hani, Emirati, 27###
– Danielle Ferns, Indian, 27###
– Lara Geadah, Lebanese, 24###
– Khalid Walid Saleh, 28, Palestinian-American###
– Menna Fahmy, Emirati, 26###
The Morning and Evening Brief###
The Morning and Evening Brief