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Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive: The New Retirement Revolution Paperback – December 20, 2007

by David Bogan (Author), Keith Davies (Author)

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Checked your forehead lately?

See a use-by date?

No? Then why on earth are you worrying about retirement?

Wake up - retirement is a dumb idea with no place in modern society. It's absurd, economically unviable and can kill you. In a radical, bound-to-be controversial but definitely thought-provoking new approach to the second half of your life, David Bogan and Keith Davies challenge you to turn everything you've been conditioned to think about retirement on its head.

Here, in Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive, Bogan and Davies skillfully dissect the retirement industry and arrive at some life-changing conclusions, with real life examples of enlightened individuals who have looked intelligently at their future and decided to live actively and stay in control. There is an exciting, vibrant life beyond a miserly, uncertain retirement.

Bogan and Davies will show you how to:

Remain active in a new, scaled-back career without giving up traditional retirement activities
Invest in your physical, mental, and emotional health
Plan for an occupation that will keep going as long as you do

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About the Author

David Bogan is an international conflict manager and mediator.

Keith Davies is an author with more than thirty years' experience in investigative journalism, advertising, and media management.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill Education; 1st edition (December 20, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 282 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 007154593X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071545938
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #5,436,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,474 in Gerontology Social Sciences
- #5,166 in Retirement Planning (Books)
- #70,884 in Economics (Books)

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Britnee S.

Could have been a pamphlet.

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2018

It was way too long and mostly fluff. Reading the first chapter and key points at the end of the subsequent chapters would have been enough.

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2008

My main disappointment with this book is that it took 274 pages to say what could have been said in 50 pages. Most of the content was empty and I found myself getting angry and frustrated with the author's constant repetition. I kept pressing on in the hope that the book would eventually reveal some new insight but it never did. I don't think I have ever been so happy to finally finish a book and end the frustation.

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Gloria J. Herrera

ECONOMIC PARADOX

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2009

The Avoid Retirement book is an excellent example of an economic paradox:
How do you retire if less than 20% of the American people have a pension?
The majority of Americans cannot retire because they do not have a pension
and are under constant risk of losing their 401 (k). About 80% of Americans
have $45,000.00 in their 401 k and most American can only expect $1,200.00
from social security. If we add this up, we find that most Americans (80%)
will make about $1,500.00 a month or $18,000.00 a year for retirement. Many have substandard health care programs and do not factor in the cost of health cost.The top economic forecast out of the Netherlands economist has argued we will be beginning a 30 year inflation cycle: this means higher prices for goods and service that the $18,000.00 a year will be receipe for buying pet food. The
book should be rename named avoid retirement and avoid economic disaster.
The other 20% are making substantially more than $18,000.00 a year and
the books advice is excellent because the retirement industry propaganda
is based on economic fantasy and you need to plan for living and not
dying. This book helps Americans avoid a generational disaster: the mass retirement of Baby Boomer will create an economic deflation and depression. They will
retire on a "kool aid" high and find out they will be living in poverty. The Boomers stairway to heaven is stairway to mass poverty or economic hell!

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Kindle Customer

Just what I was looking for!

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2008

Well,finally, a realistic book about "retirement". As the book says in the beginning, retirement was developed just to make room for younger people in the workforce, but we don't need to do that anymore. In fact, companies will need us because we are more educated, and have better work ethics than the younger set - and, many of us must keep working if we are to live.

If you want to retire and go to an island somewhere, this is not for you. But, if you need to keep working, or want to keep working, this is a good book to read. I've looked at so many books on retirement about saving money for the long haul ahead - like 20-30 years of retirement. There is NO way I can retire, nor should I have to just because it's the thing to do.

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