All Entries in the "Career & Work" Category
Signs Point to Boomers Working Longer in Life
TIME magazine is now covering the financial challenges facing by America’s baby boomers. Their latest story says we will need to work long in life … but, that’s good, according to TIME:
The latest victim of the financial crisis: baby boomers’ retirement. With plunging stock values and tanking home prices, an increasing number of boomers approaching [...]
Bracing For More Work Years
It’s a trend that caught business leaders and senior advocates a bit off guard. While they expected aging Americans to affect the economy — especially when the baby boomers retire and leave some professions shorthanded — they weren’t expecting the economy to have such an effect on today’s aging Americans.
The gold and red pin shines [...]
15 Hot Jobs in a (Gulp!) Depression
Even as the economic downturn worsens, many baby boomers are still working, and many are still looking for jobs. Most economists do not expect the U.S. economy will go through a depression related to the credit-crisis-mortgage-meltdown-bailout bonanza. Most Americans, however, do.
A recent CNN poll finds that nearly 60 percent of Americans believe we’re very likely [...]
The Best Part-Time Jobs for Baby Boomers
Working part-time is a great solution for boomers who want to retire, but can’t because they’re financially unprepared to leave the work force.
At a time when the majority of men and women expect to work beyond their retirement, according to Newsday, many baby boomers will use this time to shift gears in their careers. In [...]
Surviving Without So Many Working Boomers
Baby Boomers have pumped up the global economy with their profligate ways for nearly two decades, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s been a great party. Now the music’s over.
Generalizations about the 79 million people born between 1946 and 1964 are overdone and easy to debunk. Boomers went to Woodstock, voted for George McGovern [...]
Too Broke to Retire
In Manatee, Florida, Ron and Rose Consaga are approaching retirement age, but they’re suddenly too broke to retire.
Rose, 59, and Ron, 63, owners of The Garden Patch corner market and R & R Pool Cleaning Service, do not expect to spend their golden years relaxing: They expect to be working. They are trapped in the [...]
Baby Boomers Delaying Retirement
For millions of American baby boomers approaching retirement, events of recent weeks are delivering a clear message: Not so fast.
With nest eggs shrinking, housing prices still falling and anxieties about their financial future growing, the oldest members of the baby boomer generation are putting the brakes on plans to leave the office. On close analysis, [...]
The Best Employers for Baby Boomer Workers
As a 50-plus baby boomer, do you work for a company, government agency, or nonprofit organization that has practices which meet the needs of mature workers?
AARP believes that organizations can offer positive opportunities for older workers in the following areas:
Recruiting practices.
Opportunities for training.
Education and career development.
Workplace accommodations.
Alternative work options, such as flexible scheduling, job sharing, [...]
Retirement Centers Plan for Boom in Baby Boomers
The first of the 78 million baby boomer boomers in America started receiving Social Security retirement benefits this year, and the Census Bureau estimates almost 8,000 of them are turning 60 every day.
How to serve the needs of the largest generation in history as we head into our … er, ah … graying years is [...]
Age is Just a Number!
We recently heard from one woman who hasn’t slowed down…and doesn’t sound like she ever will. She’s a television personality in Philadelphia named Lynn Doyle and for her, every new stage of life as a baby boomer only means more work to do, more milestones to achieve. Because for her, age is just [...]
Weather the Storm with Fish Oil
The stock market meltdown of the past few weeks may only be a blip for those 45 and under, but for those of us who are in the baby boomer generation, it could take years to recover our ravaged portfolios, years we may not have wanted to spend grinding it out in the workforce.
And it [...]
