Retirement Jobs for Retirees

Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations by Ernie J. Zelinski is a great book for retirees who would like to keep working but not in a corporation.

Here are some of topics from Chapter 2: Unreal Jobs — So any Worlds; What to Do?:

• The Best Time to Pursue Your Dream Retirement Career Is Twenty Years Ago and Today
• Why Not Work for the Best Boss in the World — Twenty Million Individuals Already Do!
• There's No Better Business than Your Own Unconventional Business
• The World's Coolest Unreal Jobs
• Today's Most Exciting Unconventional Business That Allows You to Make Money While You Sleep
• Write Yourself out of Poverty into Satisfaction and Riches
• Retire to a job You Love Instead of One You Love to Hate

Although this is not a retirement book like his two other best-sellers, it will particularly benefit the millions of baby-boomer "retirees" who want to continue working in a retirement job, but not in a traditional corporate setting.

Two more recent news item about the new retirement:

Near-Retirees' net worth has plunged, report finds
Jerry W. Jackson Sentinel Staff Writer
3:39 PM EST, February 25, 2009 etirees head back to work
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Retirees are feeling the impact of the sour economy right now, so many of them are going back to work. One retired accountant is now back at work driving a ...
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Be Creative During a Recession

This is the dedication by author Ernie Zelinski in his first book The Art of Seeing Double or Better in Business, which he wrote during a recession.

To all the creative people throughout the ages who have been willing to risk, be different, challenge the status quo, ruffle a few feathers — and in the process — truly make a big difference in this world.

And here are some latest headlines relating to retirement:

Recession hits retirees living abroad
Easier (press release) - Chester,UK
Britons looking to retire abroad to traditional European destinations
such as Spain and Portugal have been warned to think twice about their
decision by the ...

Florida retirees see American dream shattered
Taipei Times - Taiwan
The Florida panhandle, home to the US’ largest population of retirees,
has become a center of financial panic. “The banks and the mortgage
companies just ...

What do these two seemingly unrelated topics have to do with each other?

If you are retired or soon-to-be retired and want to survive the recession in style, no doubt you have to be creative. Early retirement can still be achieved in this day and age by the creative individuals of this world.

More on this later.

What Is Happining to the Concept of Early Retirement?

So what is happening to the concept of early retirement?

Here are are a few retirement headlines from the major media?

Pension disaster looms
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
Statistics Canada says about 5.7 million of Canada's 16.2 million workers have a private pension plan. Even before the stock market crashed, some Canadian ...

Catholic Sentinel
Faltering economy makes for tough times for seniors, retirees
Catholic Sentinel - Portland,OR,USA
By Ed Langlois The fall of the stock market has caused particular pain for retirees and those about to retire. One woman felt compelled to leave her new ...

Americans react to recession in different ways; what about you?
USA TODAY
"My husband's retirement plan went down to practically nothing," she says. The Albrights aren't alone, by any means. It would seem Betty White, 76, ...

To help you retire happy, see:

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

The Joy of Not Working

Career Success Without a Real Job

In Retirement or Otherwise, Never Do These Things

NEVER, NEVER DO THESE THINGS

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
— Robert Heinlein

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you.
— Quentin Crisp

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.
— P. J. O'Rourke

Never send a man to do a horse's job.
— Mr. Ed.

Never fight an inaminate object.
— P. J. O'Rourke

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
— Cordell Hull


Check out:

My 101 Successes in Life

Ernie Zelinski Book List on The Open Library

Retirement Is Getting a Bad Rap

The Art of Retirement seems to getting harder by the day.

Here are some more recent story headlines:

Recession hits retirees living abroad
Easier (press release) - Chester,UK
Britons looking to retire abroad to traditional European destinations
such as Spain and Portugal have been warned to think twice about their
decision by the ...

Florida retirees see American dream shattered
Taipei Times - Taiwan
The Florida panhandle, home to the US’ largest population of retirees,
has become a center of financial panic. “The banks and the mortgage
companies just ...

Planadviser.com
Would-Be Retirees Plan to Work Longer
Planadviser.com - Stamford,CT,USA
Delaying retirement is one of several life adjustments pre-retirees
are making to weather the current economic climate. CPA financial
planners surveyed by ...

Check out these retirement resources:

Ernie Zelinski's Book List on The Open Library

101 Business and Money Resources

Fun Things to Do at Work While You Wait to Retire

101 Successes in Life

Friends and Money in Retirement