Spring Survey: Our Readers Weigh In

We are conducting a survey of Next For Me readers. The results to date illustrate some trends that we believe merit further reporting from our team. If you’d like to take the survey here’s the link.

If these results resonate with you we’d like to talk to you. We’re conducting interviews of workers over 50 to be included in our newsletter. Email info@nextforme.com and we’ll be in touch.

Here are the key findings from the survey:

The age of our readers: 

• 58% are 55-64
• 35% are 35-54
• 7% are over 64

Of those with retirement savings:

• 43% said they do not think it will be enough to retire
• 29% said they are somewhat concerned about their ability to retire/stop working altogether
• 18% have no retirement savings at all

How true is this statement? I have experienced age discrimination in the workplace: 

• 27% absolutely true
• 11% absolutely true
• 27% mostly false

When do you plan to retire? 

• 31% do not plan to retire
• 25% in 10-20 years
• 18% in 5 years

The topics our readers are most interested in reading about are: 

• Career planning post-50 79%
• Community building54%
• Financial planning 50%
• Political activism 46%
• Meaningful social activities post-50 39%
• Entrepreneurship 32%
• Ageism/fighting ageism

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