There’s no shortage of bad news about aging and retirement. Whether it’s ballooning Social Security and Medicare payments or the brain drain of millions of baby boomers leaving the workforce, the headlines all seem to focus on the increasing burdens of an aging population. There’s not much we can do about aging; we’re all doing it. [...] [...more]
Bob Lew retired a couple years ago after working for 25 years as an emergency room physician. He was just 51 years old, but after all that time in the ER, he was ready for a break, and he had met his financial goals for retirement. Dr. Lew knew he wouldn’t want to just sit around—but [...] [...more]
As baby boomers start to retire in greater numbers, companies with large staffs of scientists and engineers are getting worried. That’s because there aren’t enough replacements coming up behind them. So, the boomer-driven brain drain you hear so much about about is especially acute in the R&D arena. Several thousand of these retirees are finding [...] [...more]
RetirementRevised.com is the companion website of Retire Smart, a column written by Mark Miller that appears in more than 30 newspapers each week. For millions of Baby Boomers, retirement is an opportunity for reinvention, rather than taking it easy. Mark is helping write the playbook for the new career and personal pursuits of a generation.
