we are thrilled to have all of you join us for first and perhaps many
different conversations regarding on court careers. In 1900 the US
lifespan was around 47
and now it's nearly 80 years of age. What's more impactful is that tens of
millions of individuals are turning 60 every second, in fact 8000 day or
every 10 seconds. Someone is turning 60 in 16 years since 2030. But when I
realized I was only 16 years from now, oh my goodness, there will be 77
million baby boomers and the baby movers. I think that some of us will
outnumber those in strollers. We have approached education in the past in
far too segmented fashion. We think that Children need to be edgy. Young
adults need to be educated and after that you just need to be trained to
do your job and then maybe you'll read a lot if you have time to read and
you're not too tired as one of the administrators here at issue where we
have a very significant mission, the elimination of ignorance, the
creation of individuals who have the capacity to learn and to adapt. Now,
we've concentrated almost all of our energy for all of our life as an
institution
in late adolescence between roughly the age of 18 and mid to late twenties.
And as we're learning more about how the human mind develops, We're
learning that it develops some of us knew this all along. Watching
behaviors develops more slowly. It takes longer than we thought. As you
think about the advancing university
for all ages. I mean, it really is incumbent upon us to listen to you all
and to listen to your ideas about how we can become a better defeat er, of
ignorance. Whatever age we're going to work to in the future, whatever age
we're going to be having a health span,
livelihood extension. What we need is a way in which we can all be
learning always to be adaptable.
What we're talking about today is another stage of life that I think will
become as dramatic and distinct as adolescents has been in our modern
world today, but what seems to be one of the defining felt elements of
this, It's a desire for purpose. My organization is located in what is
primarily a retirement community and we primarily serve seniors who are
either homebound or disabled. So the people we serve and more than 500
volunteers that we have to serve them are naturally going to be mostly
retired people. And while we like to use the experience and skills of the
people that we recruit and who come to us, what we're doing more than that
is investing in their passion
because much of what we do doesn't require
really elaborate skill sets. We drive them to the doctor, we call them to
make call people to make sure they're okay with different meals. A number
of things that don't require elaborate skills or phds, but it requires a
passion to serve our workers
are really investing in the community and in themselves in their own
futures if you will, because part of what they're doing is to make sure
that our organization remains viable and vibrant and we'll be there to
serve them and their families when they need us in the future and as a
society and where we're going, we've been sold on this active adult
lifestyle where you retire and you play tennis and golf, go on a cruise
and do all these things. You moved to a retirement community. Yeah. What
I've seen hundreds of people, they do that for a year or two and then say
, what am I doing? You know, I can't just play tennis for the rest of my
life. I need a purpose and that's where we get our volunteers from. So you
need to remember that that next station stage of life isn't just going to
be off getting up late and playing golf. You know, that just isn't enough
for most. I left IBM in 2000 and five after a 30 plus year.
Sales and market. Very fulfilling, lovely, interesting career. I love, I
have plans for career after idea to become a gemologist. So in 2000 and
six I moved to California, went to all of the schooling at the DJIa became
a graduate gemologist graduate pearls accredited jewelry professional.
Came back to phoenix Arizona and got a job working in a choice. Mhm.
I don't know. So sometimes you have great plans. They don't always work
out. So I decided historic volunteering different organizations around the
valley and figure out really arrived. I'm felt I had no purpose. I had
spent so many years working and that was my life and my and all of a
sudden you don't, it's really dark. And a couple of years ago someone said
, you know, there's this organization public.
So, and I was fortunate enough to interview in the first wave of encore
fellows, not get select position until last year. So last year I
interviewed with Y. W. C. A. And as the bios right now managing their
financial education, it has been a wonderful experience for it. Really
matched up a lot of the skills that I had over the years. Yeah. So with
IBM I had done a lot of teaching. I had to go well I present I had brought
out and established relationships with customers, different clients that
we have and that really well for the workthat