Barbara Jaworski, Founder and CEO of the Workplace Institute and chief KAA-Boomer!
Everyone has a story, I personally find the stories of boomers most interesting because you never know what you’re going to get. The days are gone when a person would work thirty plus years at the same menial job, reach age 65 and promptly check themselves into a senior’s residence to say goodnight. A great many boomers today are now seeing 65 as the beginning of a new life entirely!
Take the case of Leonard K. Leonard worked as an engineer for a company in Ottawa designing power supplies. When his time came, and with no interest in fully retiring, he chose to go mobile and now works part time for the same company virtually – providing technical support to their Toronto clients for the same units he designed years before. “You can work from pretty much anywhere as long as you have internet and a fax machine,” he says with a smile.
A growing number of people think they will work past age sixty-five, and many of them have no intention of ever retiring. These rebellious baby boomers, otherwise known as KAA-boomers, want to continue contributing to society even as they grow older.
These boomers are having an explosive effect on the world around them. Now in their fifties and sixties, they are pursuing exciting new careers and new relationships, and you can join them.
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