What if the Best Retirement is No Retirement at All?

谁说60岁该退休?这群老炮儿火了!

Big Take

2026-06-25

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For a growing number of older workers, retirement is no longer feeling so achievable—or appealing. But staying in the workforce or going back to work in your 60s and 70s comes with challenges, for workers and companies. On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Stacey Vanek Smith talks to the World Economic Forum’s Haleh Nazeri about the factors driving the rise in so-called ‘unretirement.’ And we hear from David Lloyd, a radio presenter who’s trying to give other Boomers a later-in-life career boost. Read more: When the Best Retirement Is No Retirement at All We have a special Bloomberg subscription offer for podcast listeners at Bloomberg.com/podcastoffer. Hosted by Stacey Vanek Smith; Produced by Julia Press; Reported by Stacey Vanek Smith; Edited by Aaron Edwards. Fact-checking by Victor Swezey; Engineering by Emma Munger. Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Podcasts, radio, news.

  • I'm fitter, I'm better at my job than I was when I was 30.

  • Why on earth should I, why would I want to sit around and do nothing?

  • David Lloyd spent his career working in commercial radio, first as a presenter

  • and eventually running stations in places like Manchester, London, and Birmingham.

  • But by the time he was approaching 60, he found himself and his peers in what he calls semi-retirement.

  • So we were doing bits of consulting and writing and we were on that sort of drift towards,

  • towards you know, from being busy every day to doing nothing.

  • David wasn't ready to retire, but work was starting to dry up.

  • He was also noticing a shift as a radio listener.

  • More and more of his favorite presenters were getting replaced by younger talent,

  • and the stations were playing music that wasn't really tailored to him and people from his generation.

  • So during the pandemic, he had an idea for a radio station for people our age.

  • We help you fall in love with radio all over again.

  • Boom Radio.

  • That's right, Boom Radio.

  • After baby boomers, because we know that boomer has become a bit of an insult, let's reclaim it.

  • It wasn't just for people David's age, it was made by them too.

  • The station employs people who have decades of experience under their belt and a desire to keep working,