It looks like he went from the VP of a student loan company to a lowly financial adviser at Merrill Lynch. He now teaches business courses in Germany, which he

It looks like he went from the VP of a student loan company to a lowly financial adviser at Merrill Lynch. He now teaches business courses in Germany, which he considers as his dream job. I guess reinvention to you and I are vastly different than to the writer of this article. I, like you, don't see any retraining or new skills being developed to gain the new job. He just used another subset of resume (Phd) to get another job. If anything, this article is showing how boomers, once making comfy 6-figure salaries, are now getting bumped down on the payscale (sub-6-figures) as time goes on.