How to Pay For Your Encore Education
When Colleen O’Bryant pivoted from her job as operations manager at an insurance firm to start her own business as an herbalist, her training came with a steep price tag. Ms. O’Bryant, 40, didn’t make any rash money moves, however. She and her husband budgeted for her education, and she took the necessary coursework over […]
The Courage to Change the World
Call them what you will: change makers, innovators, thought leaders, visionaries. In ways large and small, they fight. They disrupt. They take risks. They push boundaries to change the way we see the world, or live in it. Some create new enterprises, while others develop their groundbreaking ideas within an existing one. From Archimedes to Zeppelin, the accomplishments […]
Reboot Your Career for New Opportunities
For Susan Golden, now 64, flinging on a backpack filled with books and rambling around the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif., for a year in 2016 was “like drinking from a fire hose,” she said. “There was so much to learn, so many classes and lectures I could attend.” She graduated that year […]
Family Matters for Panda Express Owners
At the entrance to the Rosemead, Calif., headquarters of Panda Restaurant Group, the parent company of Panda Express, Panda Inn and Hibachi-San, the artist Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture was recently unveiled. The 12-foot-high multi-million-dollar installation, with those four bright red letters made of aluminum, perches atop a fountain of flowing water. It was a private […]
Is Is Time To Try a Trade?
After Hannah Grey of Pittsburgh earned an undergraduate degree in interior design, she spent several years working for an architectural firm as a commercial interior designer. “I enjoyed it,” she said, “but it was definitely more of a desk job.” Then she participated in a workshop for architects and designers. “The basis of the program […]
The Museums Times Reporters Like to Visit on Their Days Off
Nic Fiddian-Green’s “Still Water,” a nine-foot-high, charcoal-toned sculpture of a majestic horse’s head, at the National Sporting Library & Museum in Middleburg, Va. Credit: National Sporting Library & Museum For this issue of the Museums section, the editors asked national correspondents to tell us about their favorite museums: Middleburg, Va. It’s nearly impossible to enter the National Sporting […]
Lighting Up Washington’s Museum Scene at Artechouse
WASHINGTON — A couple waltzed across the floor in a darkened art gallery while Tchaikovsky’s music played. As they danced, evanescent colors swirled around their legs and beneath their feet in shimmering shades of purple, blue and crimson. The patterns twirled across the surrounding 24-foot-high black walls in shapes spawned by the movement of their […]
Gaining The Benefits of an Aging Workforce
Robert Metoli, 57, spent eight years as a skilled technician setting up the machines on the factory floor at Lee Spring, a small firm based in Brooklyn that makes coils to be used in a variety of objects, including cellphones, eyeglasses, rockets and robots. It took a toll. Mr. Metoli’s back started bothering him, and his […]
The Psychology of Wealth: How Much is Enough?
Thomas Gallagher, 72, is a multimillionaire, but he is still nervous about money. “I have more money than I had ever imagined, but I still worry — do I have enough, if I live longer than I thought?” When Thomas Gallagher was 17, he worked as a clerk on the floor of the New York […]
The Challenges for Women in the Workplace Today
An ocean separates Chupi Sweetman-Durney, who lives in Dublin, and Lea Giovanniello of Vienna, Va., and they have never met. Yet their workplace experiences and career paths — at a time when women still struggle with both — are a testament to what’s possible. Here are their stories. Chupi Sweetman-Durney ran away from home when […]
