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I am not a baby boomer. I was born 3 months before Pearl Harbor marking my parents decision that the depression was over and that it was time to build their family. All through life I have been ahead of the boomer bulge, breaking trail and leading the way through school, career and now retirement. My experiences and results are much like those of the boomers. It is just that I am ahead of them on the path. As I transition from employee to entrepreneur I continue to lead baby boomers and I hope that my lessons can help them.
I bought into the same promises as boomers. I got my education. I looked for a good job with benefits. I worked hard. These three actions were supposed to seal the deal. My employer would appreciate my efforts and provide a secure and comfortable retirement. What I found was that employers were unable or unwilling to hold up their end of the deal. Looking back, it is clear that I should have questioned the assumptions. Why was I so eager to give control of my life away? I can’t give an answer. Right now I deal with the consequences of that decision. I need more income in order to live the retirement lifestyle I want.
Job Optional is the solution to this problem. There are opportunities to build second and retirement incomes. They don’t take any more time than a second job and are temporary while building an income stream that can make your retirement easier or start it sooner. .
There are incredible opportunities for business that have opened up because of the web. It isn’t easy to learn the necessary skills or to change your perspective from an employee to a business owners, but the benefits are easy to see. I am on the way to building a secure retirement with the kind of income I want using the internet.
Doing this at an age when many people long to do nothing may make me look ridiculous to some. To me it gives fulfillment and pleasure with each new skill I learn and obstacle I jump. Because so many baby boomers are just discovering the broken retirement promise and finding that the income and satisfaction that they wanted at the end of their careers just didn’t happen, I hope that my example will encourage baby boomers to look for new opportunities and change their retirement from marginal to great.
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