AARP: Great Jobs for Animal Lovers
For years, Linda Waitkus’s job was working as a manager in retail department stores. But her passion was taking care of her Golden Retriever, Soleil. Ultimately, she decided to find…
SecondAct.Com: 6 Tips for Transitioning into a Nonprofit Career
You want a job that matters. Executive recruiter Laura Gassner Otting, who founded the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, knows what that’s all about. For the last decade, her Boston-based firm…
Next Avenue.Org: The 4 Money Lessons I Learned From My Mom
I recently spent two wonderful weeks with my mom, Marguerite, including some time in Siesta Key, Florida, where we watched the waves roll in while eating oysters and Key lime…
NextAvenue.Org: 5 Ways Women Can Increase Their Pay
A few surveys focusing on how much women earn came out last week, timed to Equal Pay Day, and the news wasn’t great. My takeaway: Women need to be aggressive…
U.S. News & World Report: Why Older Americans Are Happier at Work
“There is a group of people who will continue working because they need the income, and they want to save up before dipping into Social Security and savings. And because…
Forbes.Com/Second Verse: Ten Things to Do When You Lose Your Job
How does it feel to be nearly 60 and back in the job market after an unexpected layoff? You went down with an entire department’s implosion. You feel angry in…
NextAvenue.Org: Should Single Women Buy or Rent A Home
My friend Martha, 53, recently bought a 2,000-square-foot farmhouse that’s over 100 years old and nestled on five acres about 30 miles from Washington, D.C. She had to jump through…
Forbes.Com/Second Verse: Older Interns? Getting Your Irish Up
In Tina Fey’s new movie, The Intern, she plays the founder of an e-business with a fashion focus, who takes on a 70-something intern to much eye-rolling angst. Are internships…
NextAvenue.Org: How Are Women Really Doing on The Job Front
There’s nothing quite like a presidential campaign to get women some attention. Female voters are, after all, the majority of the electorate Little wonder then that Democratic strategists see women…
Forbes.Com/Second Verse: Crowd-funding: The Pebble and NBC’s The Voice Rock Duo,The Shields Brothers
As I was reading the Smithsonian.com’s Innovations blog about smart watches, I stopped cold when I came to this passage about the the newest, new, new thing, the Pebble. “Even…
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