About Working Beyond Retirement and
Second Income Opportunities
WorkingBeyondRetirement is an online community of resources. Created for the purpose of providing resources for the early retirment, thinking of retirement or working beyond retirement community.
The qoal is to connect retirement resources with those considering retirement or about to retire.
Read short inspiring stories about after retirement careers.
Since retiring from a career in psychiatric medicine, Michael Quinn, has parlayed his new-found love of opera, musical, literary and linguistic influences into a new career as a composer.
After retiring from a career in engineering, Lawrence Hill has taken his family and their long tradition of cooking from the kitchen of their home to the streets of Los Angeles -- courtesy of their mobile barbecue facility. They've recently opened up a storefront as part of their family-owned-and-operated business.
After retiring from a career in engineering in California, Carthage-born Jesse McCormick now pursues his art profession full-time in Carterville, Mo. Many of his works have won awards in art competitions and are in private collections.
After retiring from a career in the music industry, Michael Browning, wanted to pursue a long-standing interest in old furniture and decorative arts. He opened a store in October 2006 called Rust. Specializing in charming, unique, interesting, value and bohemian furniture and artifacts.
Larry Scott, after retiring from a career in corporate real estate, decided to make a difference in education. After becoming Director of Corporate Recruitment at Verbum Dei High School in Watts, the students there now enjoy a remarkable 100% graduation rate.
After retiring from a career in data processing and the food industry, Fred Cross lived his dream and traveled to Alaska. Now the big state with the most of everything -wilderness, lakes and shoreline - has become his third career. Cross has started 2 B Free Alaska Travel customized tours.
Mike Clarke lives in Port Hadlock, Washington. Since retiring from a career in education, he has spent time writing and painting in oils. He has published novels: King, Larson's Law, and The Migrations of Willie Mackerels (Robert D. Reed Publishers)
Since retiring from a career in academia, John Miller (PhD 1984) has concentrated on natural resource management with appointments to alpine resort boards and the water industry. A keen cross-country skier, he has completed more than 30 events on the international cross-country ski marathon circuit.
Kathleen Whitehurst was retiring from running a specialty gift retail store after 25 years. Kathleen partnered with Deborah Stephens Stauffer to launch DaysAgo™ Digital Day Counter in March of 2006. Digital Day Counter is a gadget that attaches to food jars and counts up the days since they were first opened.
Francis and Robert Washburn, after retiring from a career with Boeing and after retiring again after owning a hobby business, Robert and Frances went on to a third career of publishing success with a magazine that brought the diverse group of IC engine builders from around the world together through one great resource.
Then Ira Wolfe -- since retiring from a career in dentistry and starting Success Performance Solutions, Ira began speaking and has spoken throughout North America
If you have a story or know of after retirement success story please email to Working Beyond Retirement.