Should You Get a Part-Time Job in Retirement?
(This article appeared previously on MarketWatch.) Some people’s retirement dreams consist of nothing more than warm weather, a cerveza on a beach, and a steady stream of best sellers to read. But for...
View ArticleThe 9 Keys to a Happy Retirement
It turns out that happiness and retirement do go together. Well, based on the research and books I’ve read and interviews I’ve done since becoming editor of the Money & Security and Work &...
View Article6 Ways Women Can Catch Up on Retirement Savings
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View ArticleBack in the Rat Race at 67
Ten years after leaving a full-time job, I’m back at it, working as a reporter for a newspaper. Two weeks in, I was exhilarated; 12 weeks in, and I am exhausted. That’s mostly my fault. Though my...
View Article10 More Great Sites to Find Gigs and Part-Time Work
Last year, after her company went through a merger, Judith Meritz decided the time was right to walk away from her 30+year career as a senior corporate counsel. After doing some traveling, she turned...
View ArticleWhy Your Prospects for a Comfortable Retirement Are Better Than You Think
Odds are, if you’re in your 50s or early 60s, you’ve put your savings numbers into a retirement planning calculator to assess your prospects of a comfortable retirement. It’s safe to guess, the answer...
View ArticleWhere the Flexible Jobs Are for People 50+
A new survey from my company, FlexJobs, of over 1,000 respondents aged 50+ found that flexible work is the No. 1 factor for them when evaluating a job prospect. Flexible work options like...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From Norway About Retirement
During his first TV debate with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders remarked: “We should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway and learn from what they...
View Article10 Signs You’re Not Ready to Retire
(This article previously appeared on GoBankingRates.com.) For a long time, you might have been asking yourself, “When can I retire?” But now, retirement is almost here, and you find yourself wondering,...
View Article7 Ways to Increase Retirement Income
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View ArticleGetting Your First Retail Job After 50
I have edited corporate social responsibility reports for international companies, trained Olympic athletes for multi-city media tours and written on complex issues, including the global sourcing of...
View ArticlePhase a Full-Time Job Into Part-Time, Then Retirement
Ready to talk with your employer about going from full-time to part-time for a few years before you retire entirely? Seems like a reasonable idea to me. After all, surveys indicate that most boomers...
View ArticleGet Paid for Pretending to Be a Patient
I’m a familiar face around my city’s medical center, where some know me as that closeted gay man who infected his wife with HIV or the hostile employee who physically threatened a co-worker in an act...
View ArticleWhen Retirement Makes You Unhappy
Some people find that after trying retirement, it just doesn’t agree with them. Here are three such stories of “un-retirees” — people who crave returning to work after retiring or went back to work...
View Article6 Ways to Prepare to Find Part-Time Work in Retirement
Question: What do Spike Lee, Katie Couric, Vanna White and this Next Avenue work and careers blogger have in common? Answer: All of us will turn 60 this year — along with 4.3 million other Americans...
View Article6 Freelance Jobs You Can Do From Home
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) After you turn 50, there may be many reasons why you don’t want to work 9-to-5 in an office anymore....
View ArticleHow to Plan for a Victory Lap Retirement
Mike Drak and Jonathan Chevreau, authors of the new book, Victory Lap Retirement, are on a crusade to change the way society thinks about retirement. Their book is actually, as Drak says, “a retirement...
View ArticleHow to Become the ‘Entrepreneurial You’ in Retirement
If you hope to either start your own business, consult or freelance during retirement, Dorie Clark, author of the excellent new book, Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple...
View ArticleThe Rough Lives of Older Americans in ‘Nomadland’
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Next Avenue and Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative on poverty and opportunity.) In her powerful new book, Nomadland, award-winning...
View Article3 Steps to Take to Start Freelancing
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Next Avenue and Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative on poverty and opportunity.) The majority of the U.S. workforce will be...
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