When I ask my working girlfriends when they plan to retire, or if they plan to retire, I usually get a quizzical look — and then a shrug. Most of…

Whether it’s to spend more time with the grandkids, cut down on stress or slowly phase into retirement, more and more folks in their 50s and 60s choose to pursue…

Women power is center stage these days. We saw it in Oscar winner Patricia Arquette’s rousing equal pay for women shoutout at the Academy Awards (with Meryl Streep lending her…

When Ruth Sovronsky, 63, took a new job as development director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the fact that her boss was a decade younger didn’t faze her. She had…

​Audrey Misiura’s education resumed unexpectedly when her son enrolled at Maranatha Baptist University in Wisconsin. “When we dropped him off, I was brought back to when I went to college,”…

Once you know what you’re looking for in a second career, you’ll want to make sure all of your preparation and training pays off. So ascertain that your chosen field…

Unleash Your Potential to Set up Your Own Business Millions of Americans over 40 years old want to start small businesses or nonprofits.  Do you have the entrepreneurial skills and…

Good career websites that focus on baby boomers are few and far between. Recently, Hannah Morgan, The Career Sherpa, published her list of the Best Job Search Websites 2015. Of…

After working for a few decades, and as retirement approaches, many of us begin to think about a second career. What else we could we do that would be more…

No commute. No pesky interruptions. It’s just you, your computer, and a cup of hot coffee. The goal of working from home is a worthy one, but getting permission to…