Boomers Replacing Boomers? YES!

Rita at boomer survive-thrive guide writes about, you guessed it, boomers surviving and thriving. She remarked on my post dealing with hiring older workers to replace the baby boomers. Our interesting and informative discussion follows:

RITA: One solution to finding workers to replace retiring baby boomers is to hire boomers who aren’t retiring. On my blog, I’ve written about the fact that about 25 percent of boomers are ill prepared for retirement, according to an AARP study. Other boomers are planning to work beyond retirement because they want to or because they want another career on a part-time basis.

PM411: Great point Rita- thanks for commenting. I’m seeing “older” worker hiring in my business- large software systems populated by the likes of Infor, SAP and Oracle. It’s taken awhile but we finally have some sales people in their late 60s. The “ill prepared” is a sad one but if you want to continue to work, be needed, and enjoy it, WORK IS GOOD. I’ll take a look at your blog. What are the hot issues you are dealing with?

RITA: The hot topic I’ll be blogging about this week is prescription drugs. Other hot topics include: what boomers should do about their retirement funds in the shaky economy; boomers on the Internet; scams and identity theft; increases in bank fees; and safety in airlines and toys.

PM411: This economy thing is very strange this time around. I know people are suffering with costs as they are for gas and everything associated with it. Personally, perhaps wierdly, I’m enjoying a resurgence in my personal finances back to the level I was at when the IT boom (1998-2000) was occuring (before it went bust in 2001). I think this is largely because my “maturity” and “experience” finallly became useful to a technology company that is finally grappling with how to sell in this “new” tech environment.

These are the types of conversations you can have on a blog AND find out other interesting sources of information for what you need to grapple with the business world. Get involved and start a conversation on a blog today!

Is there anybody out there who has had an experience similar to mine? Let me know if I’m an aberration.

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