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Baby Boomers Create a New Way to Retire
According to a study conducted for Merrill Lynch by Harris Interactive in collaboration
with Age Wave, baby boomers are not interested in traditional retirement lifestyles.
They are looking, instead, for ways to integrate work and play thereby creating
a new model of retirement living.
"While many baby boomers need to continue working well past retirement age," said
Amy Murphy, director of Corporate and Community Services (CCS) for Joliet Junior
College (JJC), "there are many more who want to continue working. They just don't
want to work the same schedule or the same job."
The retirement study agrees. When probed about their ideal work arrangement, most
participants in the study (42 percent) preferred to work part-time so they could
"cycle" between periods of work and leisure. Only 17 percent indicated that they
never wanted to work for pay again.
"Here at JJC, we offer baby boomers many options for obtaining new full- or part-time
careers," said Murphy. "We have programs in sleep technology, home inspection, pharmacy
tech, real estate sales, wedding photography, and more. We also offer classes in
computers, writing, art and cooking."
To read more about this study, go to
http://www.ml.com/index.asp?id=7695_7696_8149_46028_46503_46635.
For more information about JJC programs, call Amy Murphy at (815) 280-1418, or e-mail
amurphy@jjc.edu.
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