Purpose Driven Retirement – Jet Vertz

Work provides a central sense of purpose for many people. What happens when you leave the arena of full-time work? What will be your new purpose?  Jet Vertz is the author of Purpose Driven Retirement: Generating a Purpose Driven Bucket List. As a retiree, he's learned that your new purpose isn't likely to come from one thing, but from three areas of life - self, family and community. He also shares why you should upgrade your bucket list. And remember your business card? Jet believes you need a new calling card for the new version of you in your new life in retirement.

Richard "Jet" Vertz joins us from Rhode Island.

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Bio

Jet Vertz is a retired aviation business executive who makes his home in South County, Rhode Island. Prior to his retirement Jet was a Vice President at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. While working in the aviation business Jet was honored with the Young Engineer’s Award, Manufacturing Engineering Award and a US patent on laser and electro-discharged machining.

Prior to going into the aviation business Jet was commissioned an Ensign in the US Navy via the Officer's Candidate School at the Newport Naval Station and served in the US Navy during the Vietnam War era as a US Navy Surface Officer.

Jet is married and has two grown children. His hobbies are teaching at the University of Rhode Island Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, volunteering for South County Habitat for Humanity and snowboarding.

Jet holds an MBA from Xavier University of Ohio and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University.

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For More on Jet Vertz

Purpose Driven Retirement: Generating a Purpose Driven Bucket List

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Wise Quotes

On Being a Giver or a Taker

"...after playing golf so much and going up and down a mountain and snowboarding,  we became just a taker. We still have a so much more to give. And I think there should be some sort of a purpose in the remainder of your life rather than just being a taker. Because think about it, today most people like myself, when we retire at 65, we still have another 20 or 25 more years to go. That's almost a quarter of our life. So do we want to be just a taker in the remaining quarter of our life -  or do we want to be more productive and have some purpose? "

On Upgrading Your Bucket List

"We have another quarter of our lives to be lived. Why not apply all the things we learned during professional career? So that's the way how I felt about having a purpose driven retirement. People think a bucket list is something that you want to go and do, like travel - sort of a single focus, something you're just doing for yourself. So I came up with an idea where a bucket list should contain three categories:  Something you want do for yourself, then something that you want to do for your family,