LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When Paula Symons joined the U.S. workforce in 1972, typewriters in her office clacked nonstop, people answered the telephones and the hot new technology revolutionizing communication was the fax machine.
These days, computers answer the phones, the typewriters are gone and, with email, the thought of even sending a fax is laughable.
At the same time, the new technology has all but eliminated entire professions, from travel agent to phone operator.
As it has, it has left members of the 60-year-old Symons' generation, 78 million U.S Baby Boomers born between 1946 and 1964, with a dilemma: Should they get out of a competitive job market at age 65, as they once planned to do? Or should they work until they drop, as some now say they will?
