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Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation Hardcover – January 15, 2008

by Tamara Erickson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 183 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press (January 15, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1422120597
  • ISBN-13: 978-1422120590
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4.0 out of 5 starsRefreshing Look ay Retirement
By J. Battle on April 25, 2008
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Really liked this book. I've read several on this subject and this is the first one that really probes into the "new" retirement paradigm (Love that word). Here is a quote:

"30 years, say from age 55 to 85 is a long time. Its enough time to do "it" all over again - differently, better, and with the benefit of experience and freedom of focus. You may want to attempt a profession you didn't try the first time around. 30 years is plenty of time to go to med school, nursing or law school."

Truth is 60 or 65 is not old and Tamara brings that point home as it relates to the work world.
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5.0 out of 5 starsEssential Survival Guide for the Third Phase of Life
By John Joyce on March 7, 2009
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As someone shuffling towards the "Third Phase of Life" I found Tamara Erickson's book an essential guide to planning for an active and involved retirement. Her definition of retirement as "A New Life Stage" is encouraging and the options that she lists are practical pointers towards making the most of the rest of your life.

Buy this book in your mid-to-late fifties, as I did and give yourself plenty of time to not only read, understand and own the ideas she writes about, but to make practical plans for building the springboard you need to actively dive into the exciting possibilities of retirement, rather than passively falling into the abyss of old age.

Of all the advice given in this book, I found Chapter Five on "Reinventing Your Career and Your Life" the most useful. It begins with the profound wisdom of suggesting "Doing What You Want" is the basis for retirement planning and then goes on to treat this in the same way that any executive would approach a business plan, including advice on networking and "Redefining Your Own Brand" - all of which offers a very reassuring and practical approach to defining what you want out of life and going about getting it.

Highly recommended for anyone looking forward, not so much to 'retirement' as to pursuing a life-long dream.
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1.0 out of 5 starsQuestion the premise
By CC on May 24, 2013
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The book's premise seems to be that you should continue working instead of retiring because you have the power to negotiate terms with employers. Question the premise. Should you continue working if you can afford instead to retire? The idea that you have 30 years left at retirement age is statistically not true. Sure, some people will live to be 90 or 95. But the average person reading this review will die before age 80. So, at 65 you are likely to have only 15 years OR LESS to take hikes, be stress-free, play with your grandchildren, and so forth. If you have to work for financial reasons, fine. But if you don't, consider whether paid employment is the best use of your remaining days.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLife Lures
By BJM on May 1, 2008
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Work and life is more than the compound word worklife. We need to integrate work and leisure througout our life. Tammy Erickson's Retire Retirement captures the essence of the integrated life. You feel like you are having a conversation with Tammy and can hear her voice in the book. I liked page 113 about the global view of what the ideas of work/leisure cycles are. Also, starting on page 128, there are great ways of selling your ideas.I had not heard "life lures"...that has staying power. Thanks for creating this book. It will serve a lot of needs. I think Gen Y is going to be eager to know what to do. As Tammy writes, `boomer parents, you have loved those little darlings to pieces."
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