Retirement Is For Sissies: Or How I Survived My Job

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Product information Author: Keith Barton
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Publisher: Iuniverse, Inc.
Category: Book
Publication Date: April 20, 2007
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 138
ISBN: 0595445578
Dewey Number: 155
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Product Description: You've got the 401k, the back porch overlooking a pond stocked with bass, the grandkids, the wife, sunrises and sunsets, so what do you do now? The only constant you need worry about is time. No more eight am meetings, traffic gridlock, stained white shirts from leaky pens, spam emails, and cute greeting cards reminding you that you're a year older. You sit on the back porch with your wife of forty years sippin' on Starbucks dark roasted Columbia blend as the sun casts an orange hue over the pond rippling with large-mouth bass enjoying the morning cool air in the Sandia Mountains. Route 66 and Albuquerque can be seen in the distance as the purple shadows grow shorter and the morning dew evaporates from the Yaupon on your five-acre spread.

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Delightful and Insightful

by A. Keith Barton 2007-08-05, 0 people found this review helpful

Dr. Keith Barton's delightfully insightful book, Retirement is For Sissies, or How I Survived My Job, is a must read for baby boomers, a generation of Americans given great opportunities for education, enlightenment, and introspection. With retirement as a reality or contemplation, those born between 1946 and 1961 must make hard decisions, whether to live on their assets or remain productive within a social-economic society filled with new possibilities. Using his intuitive psychological background, Dr. Barton challenges traditional perceptions about retirement, and encourages a new attitude and philosophy to "become stewards of our time, talents, and resources and impart by example a legacy of selflessness and philanthropy."

Blending humor with perspicacity, Dr. Barton tackles topics with terse yet sprightly chapter titles such as "Maturity is not Mediocrity," Leap Before Your Creep," Don't Quit and Sit," and "I'm Not Old, I'm Bold." A boomer himself, Dr. Barton doesn't criticize those who get off the train of life to earn their "place in the sun," but encourages those to stay onboard "until the last whistle blows." A great read for a great generation.

Dr. Randy Birken, Houston

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