A clarion call for a new way to age and work As legions of baby boomers close in on retirement age, this important new book outlines the steps to thriving as an older worker in a newly defined work world. Dispelling the stereotypes of aging that prevail in our culture, author Helen Harkness champions the attitudes needed to support a radical new approach to aging and working in the coming century. With inspiring stories of people who created their most satisfying careers at an age when others were being "put out to pasture",Harkness shatters the myth that growing older equals biological, mental, psychological, and creative decline and encourages us instead to reset our career clocks.

Don't Stop the Career Clock charts a clear course for rethinking our future and finding career fulfillment in later life, with exercises, self-assessments, and worksheets for each step along the way. Practical information show readers how to find the order in the chaos of our Information Age, shake loose from old stereotypes to creatively integrate aging and working, tell time differently - functionally, not chronologically - and develop success criteria and the action steps needed to get there.

Contents:
* Rejecting the Myths of Aging and Working Aging as Physical and Psychological Decline
* Aging as Mental Decline
* Aging as Decline in Creativity
* Learning a New Way to Tell Time Focusing on Functional Age
* Following the Ulyssean Way
* Rethinking Retirement
* Cultivating Wisdom
* Resetting the Career Clock Seven Steps for Resetting Your Career Clock
* Free Agents and Entrepreneurs