About Me

Ernie J. Zelinski is the author of the international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor which has sold over 90,000 copies and has been published in 7 foreign languages.

Ernie Zelinski, however, is best known as the author of The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked (over 225,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages).

Ernie's books have been published in 25 different countries and have sold over 550,000 copies worldwide.

Ernie is also author of the unconventional career book Real Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations. His latest work is 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting.

Ernie Zelinski's Top-10 Specialties

1. International Best-Selling Author - His books Have Sold Over 550,000 Copies.
2. Early Retirement - He Semi-Retired When He Was 30 Years Old and Broke!
3. Solo-Entrepreneurship - "Secure Career" Is Not Part of His Vocabulary!
4. Self-Publishing - All of His Best-Sellers Had to Be Self-Published.
5. Book Promotion - Specializes in Using Free Creative E-books for Viral Marketing.
6. Foreign Book Rights Sales - He Has Negotiated 95 Book Deals in 25 Different Countries.
7. Public Speaking - Only When He Feels Like It, Gets Paid to Fly Business Class, and Gets to Stay at the Ritz-Carlton!
8. Living the 80/20 Way - Working 3 or 4 Hours a Day and Still Earning a Great Living.
9. Outwitting Corporate Life and Wearing a "Corporate Employment Is So Last Year" T-shirt with Pride.
10. World Class Leisureologist - Leave the Relaxing to Him!

Retirement Poems

Welcome to the Retirement Poems Webpage at Retirement Quotes and More, which brings you the best humorous retirement poems and inspirational retirement poems for retiring men, women, teachers, nurses, soldiers, government workers, policemen, firefig...

Retirement Letters

This webpage contains several sample retirement letters, not only written by employee to employer, but also ones written by employer to employee. It also includes Tips on How to Write a Retirement Letter Using a Letter Retirement Sample or a Retireme...

Letter Retirement Sample

Whether you have verbally informed your boss of your intention to retire, it is still proper to send a retirement letter near the date of your retirement date. Your retirement letter can be formal or quite informal. It will depend upon your relations...

Best Places to Retire

This Webpage has information on where to retire in the World including where to retire in California, cheap places to retire in California, and the best places to retire in Mexico.

1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement

1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement will help you join the group of retirees who are satisfied and happy to be retired. This lens is adapted from my book 1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement, which has not been published in English. It has been publis...

Retirement Speeches

Dale Carnegie stated, "There are always three speeches for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave." Following you will find the free retirement speech you have been looking for. Along with...

Retirement Gifts

The retirement gift ideas on this webpage are chosen to make the best possible retirement gifts to be given at retirement parties. Retirement party gifts can be either serious or humorous. But as Kevin Stith states, "Retirement gifts always make a r...

The True Spirit of Mother's Day

This Webpage is dedicated to my wonderful mother Violet Zelinski (Wasylena Gordychuk) and Anna May Jarvis (photo shown on the left), the founder of Mother's Day in the United States. Truth be known, you don't have to feel guilty about not buying Mot...

The Joy of Not Being Married: The Essential Guide for Singles and Those Who Wish They Were

There is nothing unusual in being single - 48 per cent of Britain's population say that they are not currently in a relationship. The Office of National Statistics says that the number of Britons living alone has almost doubled in the last 30 years t...

Magical Career Change - Escape the Organization for Good!

I am still amazed by how many letters I have received from individuals who told me that they parted ways with their employer after reading one of my books. The first letter or two I received in this regard made me feel somewhat uncomfortable, at the...

Fools and Their Money

This Webpage will eventually include the following; 1. Ten of the Stupidest Ways People Spend Money. 2. Why Short-Term Thinking about Money Is Stupid Thinking 3. 20 Stupid Reasons for Not Saving Money 4. The Two Secrets to Money 5. The 777 Best Thin...

Speech by Ernie Zelinski about The Joy of Not Working

This started with an e-mail I received in April: Good morning, My client KalDer has asked about availability and fee for Ernie Zelinski to participate at their 17th Annual Congress in Istanbul, 24th - 26th November 2008. KalDer is the Turkish Nati...

Letters and Reviews about The Joy of Not Working

This webpage includes some of the most interesting reviews written and letters and e-mails that I have received since the 21st Century Edition of The Joy of Not Working was published. As indicated in the introduction to the Appendix in the 21st Centu...