据First Command调查显示，美国中产阶级民众希望可以延迟传统的退休时间，很多人甚至希望可以工作到70岁，而他们想要继续工作考虑的不仅仅是经济问题，还在于这样他们可以继续感受工作的充实感，实现自己的人生价值。
With a growing number of middle-class American consumers expecting to work well beyond traditional retirement age, a major "reimagining" of retirement is taking place, according to the First Command Financial Behaviors Index.
Findings of the monthly survey reveal that 22% of mid