Jamal Joseph stood helplessly on a Harlem sidewalk. He was outside his apartment building watching a circle of women trying to console the mother of a 16-year-old boy who had…

Applications can be tricky and picky, particularly if you’re someone who is over 50 and you’re big selling points are your integrity and charisma and you’re required to submit the…

 One morning this past summer, Ahmed Zayat was in a stall at Del Mar racetrack in California alongside the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. “I was kind of cuddling…

When Carol Nash retired four years ago from Dimensions Healthcare System in Maryland after a long career in nursing, she had no inkling that she would soon be working harder…

How can you find career satisfaction after 50? I travel around the country speaking about exactly that and have written motivational books on the subject, including Love Your Job: The…

For increasing numbers of workers, a lifetime of work with a small number of stable employers has given way to a succession of relatively short employment, freelance, or entrepreneurial engagements.…

Larry and Melissa Lax didn’t intend to build a collection of photography that would lure curious fashion editors and museum curators to their white-sided fieldstone home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.…

In the beginning, Ginny Corbett says, she just wanted to help people heal. While working as a licensed psychotherapist, it puzzled her that many of her clients relied on pills…

Here’s the dilemma: You’ve had the same job title for years, but the job you do has evolved to become something quite different than what your job title reflects. Now…