Getting the Most Out of Online Job Websites
If you’ve been job hunting in recent years, chances are you’ve tapped into one of the many online job boards. You probably created an account, uploaded your résumé, and even connected with some of your professional contacts. Yet if you haven’t visited these sites in a while, you might want to check back because some […]
Kerry’s Expert Tips on NEA: Your Retirement Nest Egg, Is it Built to Last?
For some, like Roger Rea, a retired teacher living in Omaha, Neb., the transition into retirement is financially seamless. “My retirement income comes from our retirement system as well as Social Security,” Rea says. “In addition, I have quite a bit of money invested in my 403(b) account, which I have not had to tap, […]
Kerry’s Expert Tips on City Life: 10 People Who Will Change Your Life
Haven’t yet lost that dreadful muffin top or made amends with your latest friend-turned-foe? Nowhere near achieving the relationship or career you so desperately want, need? We called upon the experts to crank up our happy-o-meter with motivational tips that will take us that much closer to personal fulfillment. What we asked: How can we […]
Women and Long-Term Care Insurance
I’ve been thinking about long-term care insurance a lot lately, because my dad would have been 94 yesterday. He died six years ago after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Dad didn’t have long-term care insurance, so his $5,000-a-month costs in an Alzheimer’s care facility were primarily paid out-of-pocket. So with my father on my mind, I’ve been […]
Kerry’s Expert Tips on StarTribune: Over 50, working against time in America’s harsh job market
As hard as he tried, Michael Duffy couldn’t find a job to match the one he’d lost. For two decades he earned six figures selling equipment to factories. But at 62, he kept getting turned away, one job interview after another. So last fall he started at Starbucks. He wears a green apron, wipes tables, […]
Family Foundations Let Affluent Leave a Legacy
STEPHANIE Cordes, a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has a present from her father, Ron, that she treasures. It’s a handmade pink scrapbook, titled, “5 Life Lessons From Dad.” Inside are whimsical photos of her with friends and family alongside typed pages containing his simple guidance. The chapters are: “Seek your passion.” […]
It’s a Buyer’s Market for Private Islands
WHEN ultrarich Americans go house-hunting outside the United States, they’ve got a Caribbean soul they can barely control, to paraphrase Jimmy Buffett. Those were the findings of the Candy GPS Report, which focused on the home-buying habits of high net-worth individuals around the world — those with more than $30 million in assets — ranking […]
Meet ‘The Poster Boy’ For The Encore Career Movement: Ron Cordes
When Ron Cordes met his wife, Marty, in 1979, his college fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, was raising money by selling flowers on campus to benefit a camp for underprivileged kids. Marty’s sorority was also helping to sell the flowers. Thirty-five years later, the philanthropic duo, along with their 24-year-old daughter, Stephanie, are […]
For Many Older Americans, an Entrepreneurial Path
When Marilyn Arnold was 9 years old, her mother, a skilled seamstress, patiently taught her to sew on a vintage Singer treadle sewing machine. As her feet pumped away at the machine in her family’s farmhouse near Paris, Mo., she was smitten. “I was in love with sewing, even when I stuck my finger and […]
Jane Pauley looks at reinventing life after 50
Jane Pauley gets it — the real fear that so many people over age 50 face about what they are going to do for the next 30 or 40 years. In her compelling new book, Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life (Simon & Schuster, 253 pages, $26.00), Pauley, the formerToday show and Dateline NBC co-host, delivers a […]
