9 Money Moves When You Lose A Job
If you’ve ever been laid off, you know how it stings. I’ve been there, too, and, sadly, growing numbers of workers have lost their jobs lately. The first quarter of…
Planning Your Career’s Second Act
Unemployment is difficult at any age, but it can be especially difficult when you are over 50. Surveys show that up to 80 percent of us hope to do so,…
How to Negotiate a Phased Retirement
You get up every morning from your alarm clock’s warning Take the 8:15 into the city … to get to work by 9. That’s what the rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive…
How Retirees Keep Working in Bridge Jobs
The days of retirement marked by a sheet cake and gold watch are long gone for most workers in the United States. Today, complete withdrawal from the labor force can…
Planning for Your Second Act
Unemployment is difficult at any age, but it can be especially difficult when you are over 50. I recently wrote about the problems of planning to work in retirement. Surveys…
Advice on Getting a Home Equity Line
Since home buying has sputtered, banks are feverishly pushing home equity lines of credit (or HELOCs) to homeowners whose properties have regained much of the value they lost during the…
How to Look For Work After 50
I loved, loved being a guest on this podcast–Episode 28 on the playlist. If you’re looking for a job, or know someone who is, check it out. Mac Prichard is…
Books That Will Help You Advance Your Career
My book Love Your Job is #2. Honored! Are you an assistant? An associate? A VP with unlimited vacation? It doesn’t matter. Because no matter where you’re at in your…
Positive Job Searching After 50
I can’t shake this lyric from Carole King’s song Beautiful out of my mind: You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face. And show the…
Kerry Weighs in: Ready to Retire? Finding Work.
A friend recently called to tell me he had been laid off from a company where he worked for more than a decade. He’s 60 years old and not ready…
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