Tim Berry’s Baby Boomer Un-Retirement – Part 2

Several years ago I posted on Tim Berry’s un-retirement.  Here is the main section of that post:

“I recently traded emails with well-known business planning expert and blogger Tim Berry.  I was curious how he found the time to do so much work.  His answer was he was retired.

This came as quite a surprise to me since from the outside it looks like he runs a media empire.  Tim has multiple blogs, a consulting practice and a software company.  He actively participates in webinars, writes books, speaks at conferences, writes for traditional media, etc.,etc., etc.

While Tim may not be the typical baby boomer, he is a great example of our generation’s approach to retirement.  Tim and others like him are why we are – somewhat obviously I think – forecasting that retiring boomers Will start and work in small businesses in growing numbers.”

Tim has written a follow-up article on his un-retirement – How to Rewrite Your Job Instead of Retiring – over at Small Business Trends.  It is interesting to see his perspective after 3 years.  He is very enthusiastic about his retirement because he found something he loves doing.  Key quote:

“For me it was writing, blogging, speaking, etc. This blog posts, several blogs … in fact since I named the new CEO in April of 2007 I’ve done slightly more than 2,000 blog posts, and three books. And speaking, and teaching.”

I think all boomers should read Tim’s article as part of their retirement planning.

(The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels. Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.  Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research, covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business.)