I recently went to a symposium at the Milken Institute.   Marci Alboher, author of "The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life," was joined by film industry pioneer and University of California Board of Regents Chair Sherry Lansing and others who discussed what it takes to create a fulfilling and meaningful second act.

Here is what I learned:  Most baby boomers do not speak the language of retirement. Sure they may technically retire from a long held position in a particular industry, but they do not retire in the way that we use the term when speaking of what the previous generations did; a phase that preceded the end of their lives. 

For sure, the golden years for many of the baby boomers with whom I speak envision time off from the rat race, but they also speak to a desire to become active in a field from which they were previously barred because of financial constraints.

For me, I love what I do. I also know that in 15 years, when I am 65, if I have good health and enough money in the bank to feel secure, I will do something else. I will not retire. 

What I do may not make me any money, but I will work. Whenever Joel and I take our kids to a National Park we ponder what it would be like to someday work in one.

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