Are you Rethinking your Retirement? (Drop me a line and you be featured here.)

The stock market has fallen more than 33% since last October.

Even more depressing, collectively we have lost something like $2 trillion in the value of our retirement accounts.

That has gotten me to start rethinking my retirement plans.

I am wondering if it is affecting yours.

I am not so much curious about people who are thinking about cutting back. Rather, I am wondering if you—like me—are seeing this as a chance to make lemonade out of lemons.

The fact that our retirement accounts are plummeting means we are going to have to work longer. But that doesn’t mean we necessarily have do the same sort of work we are doing now.

Are you using the current downturn to rethink what you will do for a living in the future, once you reach “retirement” age?

I am looking for a few good men and women, people who plan to change their working lives in “retirement.” (Wall Street professionals who will teach math; someone who is finally going to start that business they have always dreamed of; people who are going to start—or make a serious commitment to a non-profit. You get the idea.)

I really want to hear from you if you need to have already taken steps to make your goal a reality. (You’re earning your teaching degree; you have a business plan and potential financing in place for the company you want to start; you are spending your vacation and free-time working with the charity.)

And certainly people who have already made the transition qualify.

Your story could be included in a book I am planning to write about all this, and you could be featured on the ThirdAge.com website as well.)

Interested? Drop me a line at PaulBBrown@aol.com