25 Best Jobs for Boomers

25 Best Jobs for Boomers by Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com<br /><br />Attention baby boomers - If you're not ready to spend the rest of your life golfing, traveling or doing anything else that comes after retirement, good news awaits -- you don't have to. Today's retirees are defying the stereotypes that surround retirement by changing careers, rather than ending them.<br />Clarence "Nic" Nicodemus, 64, is living proof. At the ripe age of 61, Nicodemus graduated from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM) and was preparing for a one-year internship, according to a 2004 press release from Michigan State University. Nicodemus joined COM at age 57, after spending a decade teaching classes and doing orthopedic research at the University of Texas. He said going to med school was the next logical step in his career and a lifelong dream.<br />"I feel like I can relate to patients of any age," he said. "A patient can bring up any subject -- grandchildren or a death in the family or a disease in the family -- and I can relate to them."<br /><br />Like Nicodemus, many baby boomers - the chunk of our population born in 1946 through 1964 - haven't been able to work in highly fulfilling jobs. Working lackluster, draining, even hazardous jobs just to bring home a paycheck was the norm for boomers just trying to get by. But times, they are a changin'. "The chances are good that you [baby boomers] are better able than at any time previously to choose work that will be fulfilling,"Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D. write in their new book, "225 Best Jobs for Baby Boomers." For reasons that vary from being under less financial stress to being able to consider part-time work for the first time, boomers now have the option of making another career move instead of retiring. Farr and Shatkin analyzed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to formulate lists of jobs with a high percentage of baby boomers -- specifically, the jobs for which 40 percent of the workforce is age 45 or older. The jobs listed had the best combination of high salaries, fast growth and ample job openings.<br />Of the 225 jobs highlighted in the book, here are the 25 best of the best according to Farr and Shatkin.<br /><br />Management analysts<br />What they make: $60,921*<br />Projected annual openings: 78,00<br /><br />Teachers,Postsecondary<br />What they make: $63,219<br />Projected annual openings: 216,000<br /><br />Logisticians<br />What they make: $39,637<br />Projected annual openings: 162,000<br /><br />General and Operations Managers<br />What they make: $78,762<br />Projected annual openings: 260,000<br /><br />Registered Nurses<br />What they make: $53,865<br />Projected annual openings: 215,000<br /><br />Anesthesiologists<br />What they make: $240,207<br />Projected annual openings: 38,000<br /><br />General Internists<br />What they make: $310,072<br />Projected annual openings: 38,000<br /><br />Obstetricians and Gynecologists<br />What they make: $238,714<br />Projected annual openings: 38,000<br /><br />Family and General Practitioners<br />What they make: $154,264<br />Projected annual openings: 38,000<br /><br />General Pediatricians<br />What they make: $159,625<br />Projected annual openings: 38,000<br /><br />Medical<br />and Health Services Managers<br />What they make: $77,350<br />Projected annual openings: 33,000<br /><br />Financial Managers, Branch or Department<br />What they make: $79,905<br />Projected annual openings: 71,000<br /><br />Treasurers, Controllers and Chief Financial Officers<br />What they make: $113,344 - $196,538<br />Projected annual openings: 71,000<br /><br />Chief Executives<br />What they make: $328,283<br />Projected annual openings: 63,000<br /><br />Government Service Executives<br />What they make: $148,584<br />Projected annual openings: 63,000<br /><br />Private Sector Executives<br />What they make: $148,584<br />Projected annual openings: 63,000<br /><br />Pharmacists<br />What they make: $88,619<br />Projected annual openings: 23,000<br /><br />Lawyers<br />What they make: $86,593<br />Projected annual openings: 53,000<br /><br />Education Administrators, Elementary and Secondary School<br />What they make: $133,062<br />Projected annual openings: 31,000<br /><br />Administrative Services Managers<br />What they make: $74,896<br />Projected annual openings: 40,000<br /><br />Sales Representatives, Agricultural<br />What they make: $53,034<br />Projected annual openings: 44,000<br /><br />Sales Representatives, Chemical and Pharmaceutical<br />What they make: $53,034<br />Projected annual openings: 44,000<br /><br />Sales Representatives, Electrical/Electronics<br />What they make: $81,600<br />Projected annual openings: 44,000<br /><br />*Salary figures based on data from CBsalary.com, powered by SalaryExpert.com<br /><br />Rachel Zupek is a writer and blogger for CareerBuilder.com and its job blog, The Work Buzz. She researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues. Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBwriterRZ.

25 Best Jobs for Boomers

25 Best Jobs for Boomers by Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.comAttention baby boomers - If you're not ready to spend the rest of your life golfing, traveling or doing anything else that comes after retirement, good news awaits -- you don't have to. Today…

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