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Another Shot
Reinventing Yourself After 60 By Sue Marquette Poremba
Ann Fry celebrated her 60th birthday with a move halfway across the country. "I've always wanted to live in New York," she says, having visited the city many times in her youth. But when she married, she and her husband moved to Texas. She divorced five years ago. As her 60th birthday approached, however, she thought about moving. "Since I speak and consult for a living, where I live is not dependent on where I work," she says. "As long as I can hop on a plane, I can live anyplace."
A week after her birthday, she decided to sublet a place in New York City as a trial. "Could I be happy there?" she says. "Well, I had an awesome time. Two months later, I sold most of my belongings, piled myself, my two cats and whatever else would fit into a rental van, and my son drove me to New York."
Traditional retirement, leaving a job at 62 and puttering about the house, is quickly becoming a thing of the past. In fact, retirement itself is being put off much longer. "People are delaying retirement or retiring differently," says Jonathan Pond, PBS financial advice expert and author of You Can Do It: The Boomers' Guide to a Great Retirement (Collins, 2006). "Their social network and their ego are centered around their job."
Ask a group of senior citizens about their active lifestyle and the majority will tell you about their job, like Marilyn Murdoch of Portland, Ore. Murdoch owns a frame shop. Recently, she added an art gallery to her framing business. "I opened Guestroom Gallery with revolving curators, who brought in different art media, opinions and styles of presentations I never would have thought of," she says. "This proved to be so much fun for me that I opened another gallery that I could curate called Murdoch Collections."
