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'Retired' boomers shift careers and keep on working
Home » Careers » Blog » 'Retired' boomers shift careers and keep on workingPosted by Your Guide on May 30, 2006 8:32 PM
After 24 years with Delta Air Lines, Nancy Stiefvater took an early-retirement package the summer of 2001 but thought she had "too much to offer" to retire or live out her life as a greeter at a big-box store.
Five years later, after a succession of temporary jobs, she finally landed a dream job as a patient services coordinator at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
"It's an opportunity to work with people in a top-flight organization," says Stiefvater, 56. She credits her working retirement and volunteer work with helping her network into a post-retirement job that "makes me feel productive" and cushions family retirement finances.
Stiefvater is in good company in the ranks of the "un-retired": A recent AARP survey reports that 80 percent of baby boomers plan to work at least part-time in retirement after ending their careers.
Efforts are under way in Washington and corporate America to pave the way for phased retirement arrangements, given the unprecedented graying of the nation's workforce as 76 million boomers born between 1946 and 1964 march on.
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