Generational viewpoints and experiences also play a role in
future retirement plans, with many taking a highly proactive
approach to their future. “Security, whether job, economic, government, or otherwise, no longer exists,” says a manager at a large
company. “Although I’m only going on thirty, I’ve already seen
multiple iterations of layoffs of employees in their forties and
fifties, so I expect zero corporate security. With the way the
national debt is piling up and taxes are being reduced, I don’t expect
Social Security to be around when I retire either, so I am working
to create my own financial security.”