{"id":534240,"date":"2023-01-03T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/retire-better-nancy-pelosi-love-or-hate-her-her-senior-work-ethic-is-admirable\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T05:03:00","slug":"retire-better-nancy-pelosi-love-or-hate-her-her-senior-work-ethic-is-admirable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/retire-better-nancy-pelosi-love-or-hate-her-her-senior-work-ethic-is-admirable\/","title":{"rendered":"#Retire Better: Nancy Pelosi: Love or hate her, her senior work ethic is admirable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a9a631de58\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/retire-better-nancy-pelosi-love-or-hate-her-her-senior-work-ethic-is-admirable\/#Paul_Brandus\" >Paul Brandus<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRetire_Better_Nancy_Pelosi_Love_or_hate_her_her_senior_work_ethic_is_admirable%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Retire Better: Nancy Pelosi: Love or hate her, her senior work ethic is admirable&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"American_culture_devalues_age_and_the_wisdom_and_experience_it_conveys\"><\/span>\n  American culture devalues age and the wisdom and experience it conveys<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap crawler\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0001524571\" role=\"document\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetArticleReader\n              \n              inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetArticleReader\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-object-article-reader\">\n<div class=\"audioplayer\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0001524571\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Listen to Article\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"articlereader\" data-show-title=\"false\" data-theme=\"wsj-article-reader\" data-show-header=\"false\" data-show-subscribe=\"false\" data-ads-enabled=\"true\" data-save-publication=\"false\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       \u200bMost journalists who write about outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi naturally focus on her politics and policies. And most Americans in this divided country seem to have a binary view of her: She\u2019s either loved or despised. This column is different from all that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> This column is about a senior citizen who gets\u00a0up each day and tackles one of the toughest jobs around. Not for money, but for the challenge and desire of trying to contribute whatever and wherever she can. Who, at age 82, years after most people have retired, continues to see value and honor in holding a job.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       Whatever one\u2019s political views, this is an ethos to be admired. American culture tends to place youth and beauty on a pedestal, while devaluing age and the wisdom and experience it conveys. We are fools for doing so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The argument that\u00a0\u200bsome\u00a0politicians are too old to serve is a legitimate one. President Biden is 80. Former President Trump is 76. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is 80. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), in his final hours as House Majority Leader, is 83. How old is too old to serve? Voters decide such things. But the broader question as it relates to age is this: How old is too old to\u00a0<em>work?<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From a labor standpoint, we need all the senior workers we can get. Even as some Americans fear immigrants are taking our jobs, the latest data from the Labor Department says that there are\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/jlt\/\" class=\"icon none\">10.3 million job openings<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S.\u00a0The\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cps\/\" class=\"icon none\">labor-force participation rate<\/a>\u00a0(the percentage of workforce that has a job or is looking for one) is 62.1%, and the overall employment-population ratio (the percentage of the total working age of the workforce employed to total working age population) is 59.9%.\u00a0And a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/24\/us\/birth-rate-increase.html\" class=\"icon none\">birthrate that has been falling\u00a0<\/a>for a generation\u2014though it ticked up slightly in 2021\u2014suggests the pipeline of future workers entering the labor force will be narrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong>\u2018I needed something to do\u2019: How working in retirement is being embraced by older adults and companies<\/p>\n<p>So yes, if seniors want to work and are able to do so, employers should welcome them with open arms. Too bad this isn\u2019t often the case, and the fact that it\u2019s not is because many employers are penny-wise but pound-foolish.<\/p>\n<p>Remember what I said about how age is devalued in this country? There\u2019s a longstanding stigma about hiring older workers. The old saws are these: They want too much money (who doesn\u2019t?). They can\u2019t keep up with new skills and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> (says who?). I\u2019m probably painting with a broad brush here, but what I think this stuff really means is that companies are just looking for plug-and-play employees; they don\u2019t want to invest in workers or train them. Younger workers, it is thought, are cheaper, probably more knowledgeable about the latest technology and so forth. There\u2019s something to these <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ities, but the problem, as I\u2019ve mentioned, is that there are\u00a0\u200b10\u200b\u00a0million job openings in this country. There aren\u2019t enough younger workers. The fact that there aren\u2019t helps explain the sharp increases in wages over the past few years. Employers are paying up to get whoever they can.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018I don\u2019t need the money anymore. If I like a project, I do it.\u2019 Seniors find satisfaction in self-employment<\/p>\n<p>But after paying up to plug in younger workers, what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens? Those younger workers are likely to bolt. A report by Gallup found that millennials are the \u201cleast engaged generation in the workplace,\u201d and three times more likely to switch jobs than non-millennials. This turnover, Gallup estimates, costs the U.S. economy $30.5 billion annually. But it\u2019s seniors who are too expensive? I don\u2019t buy it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>Older workers, meanwhile, are more likely to stick around. What company wouldn\u2019t want to benefit from this loyalty, not to mention wisdom, experience and stability? These are attributes that\u2014while hard to quantify as one can a salary\u2014can add value to any enterprise. If any training is needed to learn\u00a0\u200ba\u00a0new skill, so be it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s to older workers\u2014like Nancy Pelosi\u2014wherever they are. Hospitals, classrooms, an airport gate agent like the one I encountered in Atlanta last week. And the halls of Congress. Anyone of any age with ideas, energy and the desire to contribute should be welcomed in America\u2019s ever-evolving economy.\u00a0And the rest of us should be grateful that they remain eager to contribute. Perhaps we\u2019ll be in their shoes one day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Paul Brandus\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/author\/paul-brandus\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestWingReport\",\"text\":\"@WestWingReport\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"email\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/mailto:contributors@marketwatch.com\",\"text\":\"contributors@marketwatch.com\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Paul_Brandus\"><\/span>Paul Brandus<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><ufc-follow-author-widget product=\"marketwatch\" author-id=\"155_MW\" author-name=\"Paul Brandus\" signin-url=\"https:\/\/accounts.marketwatch.com\/login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketwatch.com%2Fstory%2Fnancy-pelosi-love-or-hate-her-her-senior-work-ethic-is-admirable-11672700494%3Frss%3D1%26siteid%3Drss\" panda-api=\"https:\/\/follow-api.marketwatch.com\"><\/ufc-follow-author-widget><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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