Too Young to Retire by Marika Stone

Author:Marika Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2010-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.—RUDOLPH FLESCH (AUTHOR, COMMUNICATION SKILLS GURU)

I miss 100% of the shots I never take.

—WAYNE GRETZKY, ICE HOCKEY SUPERSTAR

Chief Energizer Officer

Chief Humor Officer

Creatologist

Director, Department of the Future

Ethicist

Left Brain

Outside General Counsel

VP Cool

You won’t find these job titles in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Dictionary of Occupational Titles, but that doesn’t mean they don’t or couldn’t exist. In the late twentieth century, new jobs were created faster than we could categorize them, suggesting the creation of useful work and ways of working is limited only by our imagination. Human creativity proves again that it can take on just about anything the times dish out. Fortunately for all of us, imagination is something Homo sapiens were born with and it is ageless. The ability to see more than is evident separates us from every other being, except possibly our primate brethren, the chimpanzee, which took a few million millennia to develop rudimentary tools.

Imagination, as you probably know, never moves in a straight line. It takes you on a zigzag course. In pursuit of your bliss, you leap, you soar, you land in places you hadn’t anticipated. In fact, the power of imagination is its unpredictability, the happy accidents that occur when someone is going about their life, but happens to be in the right place, at the right time. Just ask any inventor. You might examine the circuitous route taken by many people to successful second, even third, careers, in the True Stories profiles in www.2young2retire.com. A county-court judge who became an elementary schoolteacher. A Wall Streeter who morphed into an author and motivational speaker. The phone installer who launched herself as a senior life-skills trainer. Not only doable, done.

Like any other inborn talent, imagination needs to be cultivated and encouraged. If you’ve been in a job that didn’t reward an entrepreneurial spirit let alone sideways thinking, now may be your chance to give that genius free rein. Prepare to move that big brain of yours up, down, and sideways as you consider the following list of 101 opportunities. Let it be a springboard to inventions of your own.

Don’t expect any “Make $5,000 a month working from home” claims here. Maybe there is some truth to them, but we’re here to steer you toward more solid, proven opportunities to make money. Each listing is followed by a symbol: the sunis for jobs that can yield at least a comfortable middle-class income ($30-50K) when pursued with full-time commitment; the moonfor work that can supplement income (and/or is fulfilling in other ways). A number of these opportunities can start out part-time then become the whole enchilada; it’s up to you.

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