Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Retirement vs. Secondment
MarketWatch
July 15, 2008
Overview: “As more than 76 million baby boomers, that's more than one-quarter of the US population, enter their 50's and 60's they are confronting the ‘r’ word ... retirement. But theirs is a generation of over-achievers; a generation that will not stop working altogether in the traditional sense -- nor will they necessarily want to keep working full-time… boomers are instead looking to the ‘s’ word ... secondment…”
Just Don't Call Me 'Granny'
Jackie Burrell
Contra Costa Times
July 14, 2008
Overview: “‘We're often the same age as our mothers and their mothers were when they became grandmothers,’ says Lara, ‘but it looks different and feels different on us. We're in our forties and fifties, in the middle of our lives and careers’.”
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_9878428
Here's How Kids Can Get Along with Baby Boomers
Sarri Gilman
HeraldNet
July 15, 2008
Overview: “There has been more than enough said about how to relate to the young adults in the work force. Those of us who are older, late 40s to mid 50s, are getting whiplash trying to look behind us and figure out what to offer this younger generation. It does occur to me that it may also be time to orient them to how to successfully work with boomers.”