{"id":859791,"date":"2026-08-18T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859791\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:12:09","slug":"no-more-iron-rice-bowls-salaried-workers-need-to-be-entrepreneurial-to-have-long-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859791\/","title":{"rendered":"No more iron rice bowls &#8211; salaried workers need to be entrepreneurial to have long careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">Income from work is a key building block of investing for retirement financial adequacy<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SINGAPORE] As people live longer, there is a pressing need to save and invest to ensure financial adequacy in retirement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">In 2025, male residents aged 65 in Singapore could expect to live for another 19.9 years, while female residents of the same age had a life expectancy of 23.1 more years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">For many people, building up savings and investments starts with holding a stable job where one\u2019s salary grows over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Income from work is a key building block of investing for retirement financial adequacy [SINGAPORE] As people live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[254,64,63,99,3326,181,198,45450,180,92481,429935],"class_list":["post-859791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-career","tag-employment","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-job-cuts","tag-jobs","tag-jobs-and-skills","tag-sense-cents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}