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Mechanical engineer Joe Szuba of Dearborn, Mich., was elated when his early-retirement package came through. A 35-year veteran of the Ford Motor Co. who supervised a rapid-tooling project at the company's scientific-research laboratory, he cleared out his desk on a Friday afternoon. Two days later he was at his new job--as a consultant for Koppy Corp., an automotive-equipment firm he had worked with during his Ford years--to help carry out a previously shelved Ford project. "It made sense to me," he says. Since "retiring," Szuba, now 61, has incorporated his own consulting...
...Szuba and Rosenblum illustrate two answers to a crucial question about retirement: Should you spend your golden years doing what you have always done or maybe take one last shot at turning a longtime dream into reality? Which way you answer the question is less important than the fact that you ask it, say Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners, authors of Don't Retire, Rewire! (Alpha Books). When the pair, who previously owned a New York City-based executive-search and transition-coaching firm, asked pre-retirees about their vision for the future, the responses ranged from "none" and "none...
...Szuba, who sought business advice from trusted colleagues as his retirement day drew closer, had no trouble deciding what was important to him. By coupling the familiar discipline of his lifelong profession with the novelty of owning his own company, he satisfied his desire for old comforts and new challenges. "I get out every day and take my friends to lunch and go see them at Ford," he says. "Success breeds good feelings in a person...
...ease, confidence and efficiency with which Szuba plunged into his new life is hardly the norm, according to Sedlar and Miners. Even if people know their drivers and trust what their gut tells them to pursue, they're often concerned about other people's reactions. Sedlar describes an attorney, in practice for 30 years, who is gung ho on fly-fishing and, at 62, would like to commercially sell the rods he makes. "But how does he justify, in his head, 'I'm a highly successful lawyer, I've got all this recognition; what will people say?'" she says. "Somewhere...
Receivers: Yale does not like to fly, so this corps does not have impressive numbers. Fullback Kevin Callahan is Yale's leading receiver with 15 catches for 153 yards. If the Elis throw the bomb, Tom Szuba will be running under it. He has 12 catches for 217 yards...