Don’t Retire, Rewire
5 Steps to fulfilling work that fuels your passion, suits your personality and fills your pocket. By Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners. ISBN 0-02-864228-7
The 5 steps of the Rewire process – a formula we have used successfully with our clients – are as follows:
- Seeing the opportunity: Retiring is a going from and rewiring is a going to.
- Identifying your ‘drivers’
- Linking the drivers to your activities.
- Creating your rewired vision.
- Developing your action plan.
The real workforce challenge for the future is not a shortage of workers but an abundance of older workers who would like to keep working. Don’t Retire, Rewire offers practical advice to help employers engage those workers in new ways and to help older workers understand the arrangements that best meet their needs.
I enjoyed this book. It was practical and helps a person to plot direction and create a new and exciting future.
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In the USA, many people are forced to retire when they hit 65. If they do get a job where they aren’t forced out, they find they can only work so much without losing social security benefits. Without changes being made to the system to encourage those who want to work and to make more money, I’m not sure what could say to encourage them, not to mention what I would do when I reach that age.
Since my last read of this article, I’ve been thinking about my own future. I was thinking about trying something on my own, part time, in order to gauge demand. This ’something’ is nothing but a service I would perform, on a house call basis, in which I would do computer maintenance. That would be pretty much what I am doing with the computers at home. Admittedly, it would be a niche market, but it is my impression there are a number of people out there who are clueless about maintaining their computers, especially when it comes to defragging (what’s defragging, they might say) and protecting their systems from viruses, trojans, and other malware.
There is a trend among retiring executives in America to go back to work in one capacity or another. They’ve looked forward to retiring, only to find they’ve become bored. Though I’m not an executive and wouldn’t have that luxury, I couldn’t imagine living a life of leisure, days on end.
I imagine there are many people who will discover, sooner or later, that they too will find a need to “do something else.”
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