Video production company Nextnik this week released a new video that illustrates the dilemma of Baby Boomer transition -- from worker to retiree to … what?
Videographer Mike Kravinsky, who runs Nextnik, took his inspiration for the new video from “The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife” a book by Marc Freedman.
His premise, according to a book excerpt, says that Baby Boomers “are in the position to make a monument from what used to be the leftover years, a second chance for people of all stripes to ascend the ladder of contribution and fulfillment, and an opportunity for society to ‘grow up’ along with its population. This amounts to nothing less than changing the pattern of lives, and with it the nature and possibilities of every stage along the way.”
Freedman continues: “It’s time for a shift – a shift in thinking and in culture, in social institutions and public policies, a shift from what worked in the past to what can carry us into the future.”
Kravinsky distills the book into a video that examines how Baby Boomers won’t retire in the way their parents did. As he notes along the way: “Having a 25 year vacation has got to be boring after a while.”
Kravinsky is adept at capturing in video a lot of the questions and angst that Baby Boomers have about aging.
As Kravinsky said to Examiner.com yesterday: “The only thing that’s constant is change.”
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