Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
This guide for retired career women or those about to make this life change starts out coolly but warms up to a friendly support-group style discussion of the psychological pitfalls associated with leaving a life of work. The authors, a psychologist and a workplace-issues expert who founded a networking organization by the title’s name, illustrate their approach to retirement as renewal. The book’s businesslike title is a bit misleading; chapters are short and punchy and lacking detailed how-tos on the practical points of retirement, such as exit strategies or financial planning. The book’s strengths lie in its you’re not alone tone, with anonymous anecdotes and quotes from the mostly married, 60-something women. (Read more…)
Tags: career, renew, retirement, Women
Retire & Thrive (Kiplinger’s Retire & Thrive)
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
Whether readers are approaching traditional retirement age or planning or forced to exit early, this book will help them take charge by offering dozens of inspirational profiles of people who have already done it, current demographic and trend information that helps put things in perspective, and plenty of resources for readers to tap.
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Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
In a time when How Not to Look Old is a bestseller, and the women who came of age during the 1960s are now in their 60s, outspoken women’s movement veteran Levine (Inventing the Rest of Our Lives) advises women 50-plus to reject the desire to recapture youth and acknowledge their great good fortune in arriving at a point where they can creatively enhance the rest of their lives. Citing Madeleine L’Engle’s observation, the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been, Levine uses this book to air and explore her own feelings, and those of other women, about moving from the “F-You” Fifties to a pleasanter, stress-defusing outlook. (Read more…)
Skinning the Cat: A Baby Boomer’s Guide to the New Retiree Lifestyles
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
When Dad retired, he played golf. Times have changed. Today’s retirees have a different plan. They see retirement as a time to reinvent themselves; after all, they marched in the streets, explored sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. They’ll choose adventure over safety, trade green eyeshades for whisks, calculators for palettes. And they ll live longer than did Dad. They’ll have time to explore life’s options. If they continue work most will they’ll have money to fund the exploration. What will they choose to do? Skinning the Cat looks at how we ll spend our time in retirement, whether it s continuing full-time work, starting a business, working part time, volunteering or traveling.
Tags: Baby, Boomers, Guide, Lifestyles, Retiree
Smart Women Don’t Retire — They Break Free: From Working Full-Time to Living Full-Time
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
Rentsch, a founding member of the Transition Network (a national community of women over 50 considering retirement), has extensively interviewed women approaching retirement, finding that they do so differently than men; their planning often leads to reflection and reassessment of who they are and what they want to do. Baby boomer women gained unprecedented recognition in their careers, with greater choices than earlier generations of women, and they will reshape the concept of retirement. Women may continue to work or find other ways to stay sharp and involved, intellectually and emotionally at the top of their game. Although our culture worships youth, the author views boomers’ large numbers as a sourc (Read more…)
Rehired, Not Retired: Proven Strategies for the Baby Boomers!
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
The current workforce demography and the emergent job market have put at risk millions of baby boomers retirement prospects in the U.S. alone. This is now also a global problem. Many, who were anticipating joyous sunset years, have suddenly awakened to the dire future they now face. Since the job-market meltdown triggered in 2001, many have resigned to the idea that the emerging rules for success are beyond them. Regroup, conquer these rules, and learn how to:Reinvent yourself and reengage in ways that you thought out of reach Discover your genius and redefine your value proposition Uncover and then vanquish brand-new job challenges to vivify your everyday life Make your career immune from economic cycles! (Read more…)
Tags: Baby, Boomers, Rehired, retired, Strategies.
Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
“[Freedman] says work will be essential for boomers. They have both a financial necessity and a psychic identity with work, he says…If the old notion was freedom from work, the new one should be freedom to work, says `Encore’ author Freedman…Who says you can’t carve a new life after 65?” — Orange County Register, July 16, 2007
This book was featured on Kiplinger’s Best of 2007 List. It challenges all of you baby-boomers to build a better world through a second career and provides concrete steps to help you make that next step. (Read more…)
