7 Tips For Breadwinner Wives Feeling The Strain
This past weekend, two close friends visited my husband and me at our Virginia countryside cottage. This married couple is roughly our age – 50s – and, like us, don’t…
Employers Penalizing Spouses For Health Insurance
Here’s a dose of medicine women might not want to swallow: It’s getting more expensive for a wife to get health insurance through her husband’s plan. Employers, it seems, are…
Women Retire Earlier Than Men, But Don’t Have To
I’m surrounded daily by boomer women who are working full-time or part-time, volunteering, starting businesses and taking courses online as well as at community colleges. They’re engaged, working hard —…
Working in Retirement: How to Be a Patient Advocate
This week, I received an email from a friend who has been caring for his ailing mother. Here’s what he wrote: “I feel very good about what I’ve been able…
Making a Move Abroad, and Working There, Too
WHEN Patrice Wynne shuttered her independent bookstore, Gaia, in Berkeley, Calif., and retired, she knew three things. She wanted to move to a place where she could slow down the…
7 Job Interview Questions You Should Never Ask
Interviewing for a job is unnerving. Even people who have a lot of self-confidence feel vulnerable to some degree. That’s because when you’re being judged, every nuance counts. See also:…
Kerry’s Tips on CNBC: Where the Summer Job Market Is Heating Up
It’s that time again—time for fresh faced youth to take their spots behind fast food counters, in stores and on lifeguard chairs. The summer job market is upon us, and…
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6 Ways to Land a Job When You’re Over 50
Are you kidding? Save for retirement? Seriously, there are far more pressing financial issues–like making ends meet right now and clinging to your current job, or worse, finding one, which…
NBC Nightly News: Businesses Serving Elderly Could Create Millions of Jobs
You might call it the graying job market: a rise in the number of businesses for seniors that are also run by seniors. And they’re looking to hire older adults…
NBC Nightly News: Hannon: ‘Retirement is a chance to do things they never did before’
Kerry Hannon, AARP’s jobs expert and author of Great Jobs for Everyone 50+, says people want to keep working — not only for financial reasons, but for the mental, physical…
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