Tweet It is not unusual for many professionals to leave their careers and become consultants and freelancers in their field. Experience professionals bring a wealth of expertise which business and industry would love to collect and contract. While you are searching for a second career thinking about using your expertise as a transition in your [...]
About Ruthan Brodsky
I am a freelance writer, specializing in health and medical issues, who has this wonderful ability to take complicated topics and make them easily understood.
Working at Home with Success
Tweet I am frequently asked what I do to make my working at home a success for my business and family. My answer is always: “it depends”. It depends on my children, my parents and my husband’s parents, my clients, and the weather. Why the weather? You may ask. Because I tend to get what [...]
Working Longer Increases Financial Well Being
Tweet A recent report by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College stated that half of today’s workers are financially able to retire at 65. However, if everyone decided to retire at age 70 over 85 percent would be financially ready. Alicia Munnell, director of the Center stated that “working longer is really the [...]
Transferring Skills and Learning New
Tweet It’s important to be able to transfer what you know now to your new career if you’re truly looking to find success in your career change. Many people change careers, especially in mid life, because they just say ‘now or never – time to follow my passion. It’s difficult but not impossible. However, passion [...]
Identify Skills Before Changing Careers
Tweet It will help your career change if you know the answers to these three questions. Do you know what are your strongest skills? Have you figured out for what careers, what industries, or what fields they match? Do you know what new skills you need to learn to complete your career change? What are [...]
Changing Careers is Challenging
Tweet It takes a lot of chutzpah to move to some unknown direction after investing decades to what you do now to earn a living. If you’re going to make a career change make sure you have the determination and perseverance that’s required together with a well thought out plan about what you are going [...]
Planning Your Career Change In Retirement
Tweet Whether you recently left your former job or profession or you haven’t stepped into an office for 3 years, if you’re thinking about beginning a new career you need to plan. It doesn’t matter why the change or why now – you still need to plan. You may want to think about getting help [...]
Tips for Making a Career Change
Tweet The Internet has provided me with many approaches to change my career. What I’ve learned in the last 5 years is that even as I make a decision to change, technology changes so quickly that I’m pushed to make more changes. Notice I didn’t say motivated. There are times when I just as soon [...]
What You Should Know About Boomer Entrepreneurs
Tweet Interestingly, more women than men in this age group are becoming new entrepreneurs according to a report by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc. Most new entrepreneurs, men and women, are coming from pas careers as professionals or managers. A lesser number were white collar workers and less than 10 percent worked in blue-collar [...]
Personal Well Being While Working in Retirement
Tweet Financial well being in retirement while working was the focus of my last post. In this post I’m writing about personal health status and mental self reliance. Again the information is from a recent study at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. Based on the research those working in retirement [...]
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