Retiree Start-Ups With Age and Youth as Partners
MICHAEL LOWE was bored with retirement. He was doing yoga five times a week and reading voraciously after leaving the work force in 2008. He had enjoyed a three-decade legal…
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MICHAEL LOWE was bored with retirement. He was doing yoga five times a week and reading voraciously after leaving the work force in 2008. He had enjoyed a three-decade legal…
It’s Labor Day, and while many U.S. workers are relishing the extra day off, I’m working. But I’m not complaining. I’m perched in a comfy chair on the porch of…
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.…
Most people do good deeds without expecting to be repaid. The reward is the act in itself. Encore.org, a nonprofit that promotes second acts for the greater good, selected five Americans 60…
(Money Magazine) — Robin Bylenga’s working life hasn’t always been a smooth ride. Nine years ago, the then newly divorced mother of three young kids reentered the workforce and began…
Unless you’ve been hiding in the woods, you know that it’s all about jobs these days, particularly if you’re running for President of the United States. The federal job stats…
There’s something appetizing about starting a food business. When friends and family urge you to sell your mouthwatering cupcakes or finger-licking barbecue sauce, it’s tempting to try. Lots of people do. Sales of specialty foods, many…
Ever have a knee-jerk reaction to something you read? I recently ran across a USA Today column by Rhonda Abrams, “Women Entrepreneurs Can Learn a Lot From Men,” and found some of…
An increasing number of workers age 50 and older are starting new businesses. A new AARP/Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey of 50-plus employed workers shows that one in 20 plans…
Four years ago, Linda Waitkus quit her job as store manager for a Bloomingdale’s near Washington, D.C., to open Great Dogs of Great Falls, an 1,800-square-foot pet shop with grooming services…
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