Retirement Quotations - Not!

Here are some quotations. Although not retirement quotations, hopefully you will enjoy one of them.

Failure is twenty years of shopping and nothing to wear.
- Graffiti for the soul

An economics professor teaches students how to solve the problems of the economy which the economics professor has avoided by becoming an economics professor.
- Unknown wise person

The only thing saving us from the people working in government is the fact that they are totally inept, inefficient, and ineffective.
- Unknown wise person

In today's economy, it's best to go to college or university and get yourself a good high-school education.
- Unknown wise person

All life is sacred except hippies, rednecks, and economists.
- Unknown wise person

Here are some retirement resources:

The Difference Between a Recession and a Depression

How to Become a Millionaire

Where to Retire

Career Resources for Retirees Who Want a Retirement Job

If you are a retiree thinking about going back to work, here are some more tell-tale signs that you should read Career Success Without a Real Job:

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your biggest claim to fame is being “Able to say the ABCs backward in under five seconds.”

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have ever placed this on a résumé: “Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget details.”

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if people are so narrow-minded at your workplace that you have to stack their prejudices vertically.

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have ever placed this on a résumé: “I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse.”

Here are some success quotes if you still want to work in retirement and become a success in your career:

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
— Sister Mary Lauretta

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
— George Eliot

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.
— from The Lazy Person's Guide to Success

Here are some more resources for retirees:

Retirement Quotes Cafe

Fun Retirement Jobs at The Retirement Cafe

Retirement Jobs at The Real Career Resource Center

Why You May Have to Read "Career Success Without a Real Job"

Here are more tell-tale signs that you may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job:

• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your workplace has you wondering, "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't all my co-workers happy?"
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your workplace is a refuge for the imbeciles and the incurables.
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if hope at your workplace is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible such as things will be better next month.
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if hope at your workplace is an illusion reserved for the polyannas.
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your company believes that the essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you learned this from your workplace: "Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge."

For more information on how to live without a job, check out The Joy of Not Working by Ernie Zelinski.

For fun retirement jobs see Fun Retirement Jobs at the The Retirement Cafe.

True Career Success and Career Success — Not!

These come from Career Success on Twitter:

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you worship idleness because it is eco-friendly.

TRUE CAREER SUCCESS: "Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

CAREER SUCCESS — NOT! "If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there."

CAREER SUCCESS — NOT! "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."

— Doug Larson

TRUE CAREER SUCCESS: "Every prosperous person who does not work hard has a creative project or intellectual property that does."

CAREER SUCCESS — NOT! "Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable."

— Kin Hubbard



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