Do you long to leave the rat race? Step off the treadmill? Jump off the merry-go-round? Jettison out of the squirrel cage? Pick any image that fits; they all add up to the same thing. After 20, 30, or even 40 years of trading time for money and lining someone else’s pockets with profit, most of us are more than ready for a life in which we can wake up when we want to, stop answering to someone else, leave the commute behind, and generally take our lives back. Some enterprising Boomers re-define retirement by deciding to leave the rat race and work online from home.Let’s face it; for the most part we Boomers aren’t going to “retire” in the same ways our parents did. That is, 65 on the dot; gold watch; pension; mortgage burning; long-awaited world or RV travel; increased volunteerism, blah, blah, blah. Nope–none of that for us. We are the work-a-holic generation (and proud of it? Hmmm…). At the very least we are aiming at age 72 to eek every possible penny out of our Social Security benefits while they are still available. (Sorry kids.) But even that seems like a pipe dream to many of us these days.What’s worse, many pensions and retirement fund accounts that have been accumulating in more or less the right direction for decades have seen recent losses so extreme that long-awaited retirement plans are getting pushed back to the gray zone on the calendar called “when things turn around.”But there is another option that is becoming increasingly popular–and for good reason. Many mid-to-late career entrepreneurs are redefining retirement by choosing to make a living online from home as an alternative to continuing on their all-consuming 50-60 hour/week jobs. This new breed of career and life-design adventurers–sometimes called “Boomer-preneurs”–are daring to design the lives they have long envisioned for their “post employment” years, by combining new methods of income generation with time and location freedom. Brilliant!If you like the sound of that, ask yourself these things:

Consider your responses. Tweak the ones that need more thought and action. Look at your options and start envisioning the change you desire in your life. That change may be nearer than you think!

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