Too Young to Retire: 101 Ways To Start The Rest of Your Life

by Marika Stone, Howard Stone

“This little gem of a book offers sage advice on everything from downsizing to diet and exercise.”— The New York Times

With Americans living longer, healthier lives, the conventional idea of retirement is obsolete. Millions of Americans are working past the age of sixty-five—not because they have to, but because they want to. Many, like Marika and Howard Stone, discover second careers, start their own businesses, or go back to school.

Too Young to Retire offers inventive and exciting retirement alternatives to help readers find their labors of love, inner activists, or how to make a home away from home.  Enlightening exercises and workbook pages as well as a comprehensive list of publications, home exchange organizations, and websites are included to assist readers in making meaningful choices. For those who aren’t ready to throw in the towel, Too Young to Retire is the essential resource for discovering what comes next.

157 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

Reviews

[Denise Hatcher · Rating 4 out of 5]

This 147 page book is a good review of what we learn as we age: life is what we make it, less stuff often means less stress, time is our most valuable resource, and, money does not buy happiness. I thought it was good that the authors remind us not to wait to find and do what we enjoy when we retire. Instead, yes, we should strive to fill our lives while we work with what we enjoy and realize that if our current job is not satisfying, we have many options to find some tasks that we find more fufilling. The authors have cofounded the website 2young2retire.com. which I plan to scope out tonight. In the book they explain that retirement is a by-product of the Social Security Act of 1935 to encourage older workers to leave the work force so that younger citizens could fill their positions. I agree with the authors that as our society has changed, the ideas concerning retirement should, too. On page 8 they propose that we replace the word retirement with “Renaissance” “graduation” or “transition.” Personally, I like “plan B.” I still love to teach, but plan to keep all my options open should my plan B appear. For, I am “too young to retire.”

[Brenda Bentley · Rating 3 out of 5]

The overall feeling I got from this book after reading a couple of "how to retire" books is that the things it suggested to do are the same things the books on retiring said to do. Some links are outdated as well as would be expected in an older book.

[Denicemarcell]

i'm thinking of life after i get my 25 year chair, so i'm reading this book and have an appointment with a financial advisor. book and advisor agree work is good especially when you plan for it. need to check website related to book.

book good but me i'm a cog in someone else's wheel.

[Casey · Rating 3 out of 5]

NO MORE BOOKS FROM THIS AUTHOR
This is not a bad book, if it is one's first adventure into semi-retirement, alternative work styles, etc. However, if this in not your first look at this topic, this was just BLAH and more of the same stuff you probably already know.
Skip it.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ideas for unconventional careers get the juices flowing to develop a meaningful plan for the rest of your life.