Showing posts with label creative retirement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative retirement. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Unreal Job Resources



Check out these unreal job resources, particularly those directed at retirees who want to work in retirement.


  • The Joy of Not Working:

  • Retiremet Quotes Cafe: A Comprehensive Collection of Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings for Any Occassion Including a Special Retirement Card or a Retirement Party Selections by Ernie J. Zelinski, Author of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. Includes Retirement Poems, Retirement Letters, Retirement Dinner Speeches, Retirement Gifts, and Retirement Jokes.

  • The Joy of Not Working Website: Features The World's Best Retirement Book and The World's Second Best Retirement Book. Real life success stories about people not working, 25 reasons to retire early, and retirement quotes, letters, jokes, and poems from an author whose books have sold over 625,000 copies worldwide.

  • The Retirement Café: Retirement and Money Articles Such as 7 Secrets to a Happy Retirement, Top-10 Dumbest Retirement Moves, and "Winning a Lottery: The Retirement Plan with the Most Bugs to Be Worked Out." Includes Fun Things to Do in Retirement and Jobs for Retirement.

  • The Joy of Being Retired





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    Saturday, September 19, 2009

    Creative People Are Not Necessarily Smart and They Cerrtainly Are Not Nice












    David Ogilvy was widely regarded as a genius – so much so that he wondered it if were true. After all, he reported, he had flunked out of Oxford. He decided to find out exactly how smart he was, expecting to have an IQ around 145. He scored 96 (Business Strategy Review, 2005).

    Gelade (1997) gave a personality test to people in creative jobs (58 individuals in creative departments of prominent UK advertising agencies and small design groups) and compared them with 70 managers in mainstream UK corporations with jobs that were not obviously in need of creativity. The creative people scored much higher on neuroticism, hostility, and depression.

    As one researcher noted after reviewing research studies, creative people are not "nice."

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