How Boomers Can Plan Working Until They're 97
Can you tell a member of Generation X wrote the title of this post?
Yes, it's my duty to occasionally poke fun at the huge and ambitious generation that has always cast a shadow on the misunderstood, whiny and poorly defined generation of which I am a member.
Some Boomers want to work until they drop. Why not? They've spent their whole lives working like fiends and are going to live a long time.
CareerJournal.com's article summarizing Tamara Erickson's upcoming book "Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation" offers some really useful ways for Boomers (and I would argue, even little ol' Generation X someday) to plan their retirement years.
Like any good career planning practice, the process Erickson describes hinges on looking inwardly first, then reviewing external opportunities and assessing their fit.
In a nutshell you look at both how you want to work and why you want to work, which makes complete sense, yet isn't something that everyone thinks to do.
Heather Mundell
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Yeah, I think these points would apply to pretty much anybody, not just boomers....
Posted by: Working Girl | January 24, 2008 at 09:49 PM