SecondAct.Com: 6 Tips for Transitioning into a Nonprofit Career
You want a job that matters. Executive recruiter Laura Gassner Otting, who founded the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, knows what that’s all about. For the last decade, her Boston-based firm has helped fill the shoes of chief executive officers, chief financial officers, directors of communication, vice presidents of development and project managers for a panoply [...]
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SecondAct.Com: Look For Clues To The Perfect Work and Personality Fit
Nicholas Lore is a bit of a renaissance man. In his younger days, he was a denizen of Greenwich Village, soaking up the sixties with his boarding school roommate John Sebastian, founder of folk-rock band The Lovin’ Spoonful. He studied psychology, Eastern philosophy, anthropology and literature. Lore later worked as a CEO, an entrepreneur, a [...]
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LAST MINUTE TAX TIPS FOR JOB CHANGERS
Read Published Article There’s one for you, nineteen for me. ‘Cause I’m the taxman, Yeah, I’m the taxman. Taxes are not my bailiwick. They’re complicated and make me a little nervous and irritable. So as I pause to procrastinate and write this post, I confess I’m still pulling my personal 2010 material together for my [...]
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HOW CHARM CAN BRING HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY, AND A NEW JOB
For more than a decade I’ve been reviewing books for USA Today’s Money section. There have been some really special books along the way–books that strike an inner chord with me, and I find myself jotting down passages to remember. Peace and Plenty fits that category. I’m smitten.
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JANE PAULEY TACKLES REINVENTION
Read Published article Jane Pauley, the former star of The Today Show and Dateline is back. Last year, the 60-year-old newscaster returned home to NBC’s Today, launching a monthly segment called Your Life Calling with Jane Pauley. The series profiles people over 50 who reinvent themselves, their lives and their careers. “We’re going to live longer than our parents’ generation, and [...]
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A DEVASTATING INJURY SPAWNS NEW ROLE FOR TV ANCHOR AND WIFE
Read Published Article Lee Woodruff’s first book, In an Instant, is aptly named. She begins with this sentence: “There is a ride at Disney World called the Tower of Terror, and on the weekend of January 28, 2006, my four children, even the twin 5-year-olds, begged me to go on that ride over and over again.” [...]
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YOUR FINANCIAL FITNESS MAKEOVER
Four ways to get ready for a midlife career switch By Kerry Hannon | September 20, 2010 | Read Published Article at SecondAct When Cliff Stevenson chucked his 20-year career as a mortgage banker to teach social studies to high-schoolers, his salary took a freefall. To ease the hit, he and his wife sold [...]
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5 COSTS OF GOING BACK TO WORK
Consider these trade-offs before returning to work after early retirement. By Kerry Hannon | July 20, 2010 Read Published Article on SECONDACT.COM You’re ready to head back to work after a few years of chilling in early retirement. Maybe you need to for financial reasons or simply want to for personal reasons. The bottom line: [...]
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THE RISE OF BOOMER BROADCASTING
Read Published Article Heard of “nakations”? You might have if you listen to the 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour hosted by Kathy Bernard and Barbara Kline (left). Their guest one Saturday morning was Susan Weaver, president of The American Association for Nude Recreation, discussing how boomers, more than any other segment of the population, like to bare [...]
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MAKING PEACE WITH MONEY PROBLEMS
Bestselling author Sarah Ban Breathnach offers 10 tips for finding your financial footing, even in precarious times. By Kerry Hannon|January 3, 2011 | Read Published Article When author Sarah Ban Breathnach decided to write a book about financial serenity two years ago, she had no idea how much she would need the book herself. Fifteen [...]
A collection of 65 essays that provides practical and entertaining advice about how to create a fulfilling retirement. The royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to cancer research.
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