This ain’t your daddy’s or mommy’s business world anymore. I’m sure you’ve figured that out already. First of all, people use cell phones. I keep reminding my father.

“Dad, turn on your cell phone when you’re not home.”

“Why? Then it will ring. I’m retired, and I don’t want to be bothered by everyone.”

“Dad, the only people who have your number are me, Mom, and my sister.”

He still doesn’t get it.

The career world he lived in has changed as well. Dad had a first career for 17 years at a large company that rhymes with AT&T (which makes his aversion to phones even more bizarre). After those wonderfully predictable pension-based years, it was a series of smaller “careers”—six years, six years, three years, five years, retirement.

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