Grab your earplugs. 

Retirement as we know it is about to go “boom.”   Gone are the days of tour buses brimming with ”blue hairs” on permanent holiday.  Out with Bingo, shuffleboard and Early Bird Specials.  In with travel journals, kayaking, ceviche and mojitos.  

Welcome to the anti-retirement. 

From Woodstock to landing on the Moon, to the civil rights movement, the Baby Boomer generation dreams big.  And for many, the dream is not to “retire.”

More than 76 million Boomers are gearing up for another revolution: the anti-retirement revolution. As Boomers shift gears to a post-career life-style, we will do more and see more of the world than any generation before us.  We will be the most mobile, healthy, vital, adventurous, and prosperous population over 60 ever to inhabit the earth.  We will revolutionize retirement, just as we have transformed other modern institutions, such as marriage, corporate culture, the role of government, technology and civil rights.

So what will we Baby Boomers do with our newfound—or newly re-found—freedom?  Soon the world will find out.  We know that it is unlikely to involve listening to Wayne Newton impersonators croon on boring Caribbean cruises, hacking divets on South Florida golf courses or cruising to afternoon shuffleboard matches in senior living communities.

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