Trading in retirement for real estate 

Jon Spisiak

The ink is barely dry on Jon Spisiak's real estate license and he's raring to go.

"I can't slow the guy down," says his soon-to-be boss, Mark Hodges, who has hired Spisiak to sell homes at K. Hovnanian's Four Seasons at Delray Beach, an active-adult community in Florida. His first day on the job will be Jan. 4.

But Spisiak isn't your average newbie sales associate. He's 72 and long retired from a highly successful career in the financial services industry -- though earlier in life he flirted with the real estate business.

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