Everybody is entitled to the mid-life crisis of their choosing. The gig economy is working out in a way where my generation's version of that will be to pick up a sixth job delivering insulin or air pollution cotton filters here in about ten years when we're all dying from wildfires and nuclear fallout. It will be thrilling to find a new lease on life by working for a Bay Area tech start-up that pays us two dollars a ride to drop off life-saving necessities, instead of staying inside the bunker and watching Netflix 3.0.
Former Governor Mary Fallin has found her own mid-life crisis excitement, and it is exactly as stereotypical as you could possibly imagine. The Tulsa World recently profiled Fallin to find out how she is spending her retirement: