Retired? Forget Golf, Buy A Franchise

Wall Street Journal (blog):

There are baby boomers that drop out of a corporate-world job to launch their dream venture — start-ups they’ve been working over mentally for years and finally get up the nerve and the capital to strike out on their own.

Than there are others like Steve Gartner, 60, the subject of the second installment in an ongoing series of profiles of baby-boomer entrepreneurs posted this week by SmartMoney.

After retiring a few years ago, Gartner did some renovation work around his home and took up golf. But he started getting bored with post-career life. A former logistics, distribution and warehouse executive for corporate giants like PETCO, he stumbled upon a second career as a franchisee after discovering there wasn’t a Great Clips hair salon within one hundred miles of his new Tennessee home. Read more.

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