1. The
New
Retirement
Story
in
Italy
(4)
By
Peter
de
Kuster
with
Falco
Valkenburg
Why
Travel
with
Role
Models?
This
part
of
the
travel
guide
of
Italy
will
tell
you
how
to
test-­‐drive
your
dream
job.
It
will
tell
you
how
to
find
a
mentor,
how
to
prepare
for
the
test
drive,
and,
most
important,
what
to
do
once
the
Test
Drive
Your
Dream
Job
is
over.
It
will
map
out
the
small
steps
you
can
take
to
move
from
where
you
are
now
–
made
from
wood
-­‐
to
where
you
really
want
to
be
–
a
real
authentic
human.
Along
the
way
you’ll
meet
lots
of
people
who
have
done
it
–
in
the
past
and
present
of
Italy.

2. You’ll
hear
from
them
and
many
others
about
the
fears
and
challenges,
the
mistakes
and
lucky
breaks,
the
surprises
and
accomplishments
they
experienced
as
they
moved
into
their
dream
careers.
You’ll
see
that
few
of
these
heroes
and
heroines
of
Italy
consider
themselves
risk
takers.
Most
are
still
amazed
to
find
they
have
taken
this

3.
road.
But
after
years
of
working
in
jobs
that
didn’t
feed
their
passions
-­‐
kept
them
wooden
and
didn’t
move
them
-­‐
they
reached
a
point
when
they
felt
they
had
no
choice:
they
had
to
push
past
their
fears
and
make
the
switch
to
being
a
real
human
being.
I
got
to
the
point
where
I
couldn’t
live
with
myself
if
I
didn’t
try,
they
say.
If
I
tried
and
failed,
well,
at
least,
I’d
know
I’d
tried.
Not
trying
at
all
would
have
been
failure.

4.
What
helped
many
of
these
people
was
realizing
that
the
risks
they
needed
to
take
were
not
as
overwhelming
as
the
ones
they
had
imagined.
The
scariest
moments
–
quitting
their
jobs,
purchasing
property,
signing
a
bank
loan,
moving
cross
country
–
didn’t
occur
until
they
were
already
far
along
in
their
planning,
or
even
until
after
their
new
career
was
already
up
and
running.
It
was
still
scary;
it
was
still
a
risk;
but
it
was
a
calculated
risk.
By
the
time
they
took
it,
they
felt
they
were
likely
to
succeed.

5.
What
if
you
don’t
know
what
your
dream
job
is?
What
if
you’re
itchy
and
unsatisfied
in
your
current
job
but
when
you
think
about
what’s
next
you
draw
a
total
blank?
Well,
you’re
not
alone.
There’s
very
little
in
our
society
that
encourages
us
to
know
what
we
really
want
to
do.
When
we’re
children
people
ask
us
what
we
want
to
be
when
we
grow
up,
but
once
we’re
teenagers
we’re
taught
what
we
should
be.
We
are
channeled
into
a
narrow
range
of
careers
based
on
security
and
stability
rather
than
on
passion.

6.
The
notion
that
we
could
follow
our
hearts
when
it
comes
to
work
is
pretty
much
trained
out
of
us
by
the
time
we
graduate
from
school.
So
who
can
blame
us
if,
by
the
time
we
realize
that
our
‘practical
‘
jobs
don’t
fulfill
us,
we’ve
already
forgotten
how
to
find
our
passions
inside?
They
may
be
another
reason
to
consider
making
a
Test
Drive
in
Your
Dream
Job.
It
enables
you
to
experiment,
to
test
out
all
sorts
of
jobs
that
might
be
appealing.
You
could
have
a
dream
job
and
not
even
know
it
if
you
don’t
give
one
or
two
a
try.