You May (No You Will) Live and Work Longer Than You Think!

By Carl Gerhardt

Life expectancy and productivity
It's happening every day. We are delaying those plans we had to retire at 50. In some cases, it's because we face the financial reality that we haven’t put enough away to retire in the manner in which we have become accustomed; we realize we can't get Medicare until we are 65; and the Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable and is impossible to predict. Moreover, as we get older and wiser, we realize that we actually enjoy what we do and have no clue what we would do if we actually retired. At this age and with limited marketable skills—other than owning a small business—we might find job hunting to be a bit difficult.

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Carl Gerhardt Author's page Carl Gerhardt is the chairman of Alliance Franchise Brands LLC, the parent company of Allegra Network LLC and Sign & Graphics Operations LCC, and a world leader in marketing, visual and graphics communications, linking more than 600 locations in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom. The company’s Marketing & Print Division, headquartered in Plymouth, MI, is comprised of Allegra, American Speedy Printing, Insty-Prints, Speedy Printing and Zippy Print brands of marketing, printing, mailing and Web services providers. Its Sign & Graphics Division, headquartered in Columbia, MD, is comprised of Image360, Signs By Tomorrow and Signs Now brands of sign and graphics communications providers.

Carl and his wife, Judy, owned and operated their own successful Allegra franchise for nearly 20 years before selling the $2.3 million operation in 2003. He is a PrintImage International/NAQP Honorary Lifetime Member and was inducted into NAPL’s prestigious Soderstrom Society in 2010 in recognition of his contribution to the industry.