How To Start a Business After Age 50
Yes, you can go home again. Ask Destiny Burns. For her, a return to her childhood roots in Cleveland, Ohio last year brought her full circle and inspired her to launch her own business: CLE Urban Winery, a handcraft winery and tasting room, in a 4,400-square-foot garage in Cleveland Heights. Burns, 52, retired after a […]
Consumer Reports: Starting a Second Career to Sail Through Retirement
After working for a few decades, and as retirement approaches, many of us begin to think about a second career. What else we could we do that would be more enjoyable yet still help pay the bills? What other kinds of jobs might offer more flexibility and satisfaction? Lisa Eaves, 56, a former technical-support manager […]
Ready For A Career Shift?
Are you thinking about a launching a new career, but don’t know where to start? Then here’s good news. Acclaimed journalist Kerry Hannon has just released a revised paperback edition of her book, “What’s Next? – Finding Your Passion and Your Dream Job in Your Forties, Fifties, and Beyond.” Since 2006, Hannon has been writing […]
Kerry featured in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Fitness and Your Second Act
Making a dramatic career shift in middle age usually requires financial stability in the form of more-than-adequate savings, or a working spouse who’s at low risk of becoming unemployed anytime soon. Beyond a financial cushion, however, those pondering so-called “second acts” or “encore careers” might do well to join a gym or take up yoga […]
Kerry’s Advice for Entrepreneurs: 11 Places To Find Money To Start A Business
Who doesn’t fantasize about starting a second career? Millions of Americans have launched one in midlife. In fact, about 20% of all new businesses in 2013 were created by entrepreneurs ages 50 to 59 and 15% were age 60 and older, according to a study published by the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom. If you want […]
Kerry Takes a Second Look at Midlifers’ Second Acts
On Sunday, I stopped by La Cappella, a Pittsburgh restaurant, with my mom, who I was visiting. As I pushed open the door, I was delighted to see Colleen Sheerer, the bustling bistro’s co-owner (with her husband, Tim) and her big smile. I’d featured Tim’s second-act story in a 2006 article — he previously worked […]
Best Ways to Find a Career Coach
Last fall, I had the opportunity to attend the Gerontological Society of America meeting, which brought together 3,600 researchers from around the globe to present research on the aging population. My agenda was to attend sessions on working in our 60s and beyond and the challenges and rewards if entrepreneurship and being your own boss. […]
Kerry’s Advice on AARP: What’s Next? 10 Tips for Career Changers
A police officer turned music agent. A Navy captain who became a circus manager. A botanist who traded plants for making chocolate. Those are a few of the major career changes among boomers and retirees I interviewed for my book, What’s Next? Finding Your Passion and Your Dream Job in Your Forties, Fifties, and Beyond. Each […]
Kerry’s Expert Advice: USA Today: Building a Successful 2nd Career
When Barry Duckworth, 59, of Sherrills Ford, N.C., was looking for a second career that could last him into his 60s and beyond, he realized he had to be adaptable. “You have to not only accept change but embrace it.” For 30 years, he worked as a licensed general building contractor, overseeing the construction of […]
How’s This For A Second Verse? Lights, Camera, Action
When Mike Kravinsky went to work at ABC News in 1981, he figured he would spend a year there and then head out to Los Angeles to become a filmmaker. Well, it didn’t quite work out that way. It took the 59-year-old more than three decades to follow his dream, and he’s not in Hollywood, […]
