1. The
New
Retirement
Story
in
Italy
(10)
By
Peter
de
Kuster
with
Falco
Valkenburg
The
New
Retirement
Story
“The
Joy
of
Life
Long
Working
and
Learning”
The
product
of
a
life
long
learning
of
Michelangelo.
Sculpting
the
David,
painting
the
Sistine
Chapel
and
in
old
age
designing
the
Dome
of
Saint
Peter.

2.
As
many
babyboomers
begin
to
enter
their
50’s
and
realize
they
may
be
able
to
retire,
they
will
have
to
grapple
with
the
story
of
whether
they
will
be
happy
doing
little
work
or
doing
no
work.
We
need
to
come
to
grips
with
the
significance
that
work
brings
into
our
life.
Rather
than
viewing
retirement
as
a
cold
turkey
exit
from
the
working
life
or
a
jump
from
the
cliff
of
employment,
we
need
to
view
it
as
a
transition.
The
transition
ramp
may
be
a
gradual
decline
of
hours
spend
working.
It
may
be
into
ramping
up
into
free
agency
or
another
career.
Why
do
so
many
retirees
come
back
to
work
soon
after
they
retire?
Obviously
they
miss
the
significant
aspects
that
work
brings
into
their
life.
When
it
doesn’t
feel
anymore
as
work.
When
it
feels
like
play,
learning,
being
of
meaning,
developing
oneself,
joyful
encounters.
Why
do
over
85%
of
the
babyboomers
in
the
world
say
we
want
to
continue
working
in
some
way,
form
or
shape?
Because
we
realize
for
all
that
we
give
to
our
career,
enterprise,
dreamjob…
it
gives
something
back
to
us.
When
we
strip
away
the
inavoidable
annoying
personalities
and
the
inavoidable

3. frustrating
tasks
that
our
current
career
offers,
we
realize
that
our
dreamjob
can
provide
great
intanglible
rewards
to
our
mind
and
spirit;
camaraderie;
shared
victories
and
disappointments;
identity,
the
adreline
rush
of
the
chase,
building
something
out
of
nothing;
being
of
significance
for
others,
getting
from
concept
to
reality
(like
Michelangelo
as
sculptor,
painter
and
architect
of
the
Saint
Peter’s
Dome)
and
a
sense
of
accomplishment.
The
New
Retirement
Story
about
‘work’:
finding
and
creating
your
dreamjob
(one,
two
or
more
times
in
your
life)
which
makes
you
feel
the
joy
of
a
life
long
learning.