A friend of mine is planning to retire from the business of private fundraising for profits and nonprofits. She loved being the director of development for an independent K – 12 elementary school in the suburbs and she would like to go into the same business. Barb knows this business every which way but she [...]
Second Career Answers at a Wedding
She approached me like we were best friends telling me about her latest project and recent economic perspectives. She was about to retire from her job as the head of a human relations department for a national accounting firm. “I think I could start an online business giving readers or listeners the benefit of all [...]
Self Concept Important to Successful Career Change
How we think about ourselves has a major impact on our personality and how successful we are throughout life. We’re all familiar with the kid who thought he was dumb or the girl who thought she wasn’t very pretty and both behaved the way they thought. The girl didn’t pay attention to the way she [...]
Creating Successful Environments for Career Change
Trying to figure out how successful people made their money is keeping a lot of people in business on the Internet. They market this or that training program to make money easily and quickly because that’s ho famous lady A did it or how B creates all those companies. Successful people create the lives they [...]
Reduce Stress by Taking on Less
In previous posts I’ve recommended a few steps you could take to make retirement more enjoyable especially if this dramatic change in life has left you cold. I labeled it the psychology of retirement but to be perfectly honest, even people who have taken the time to plan their retirement years find it to be [...]
Take Inventory of Yourself
It’s not easy making a career of what you want to do with pressure that you need to earn an income as quickly as possible. I can say this with complete clarity based on the dozen conversations I’ve had with people who want to start an online business being a webmaster or something like a [...]
Encore Careers – A destination
Encore careers are now considered an option for people who plan their 30-year retirement with no income. Some of that group will be those who need to retire early because they can’t do the physical labor required for their job or business. In all cases, I don’t foresee many Boomers making their retirement a 30-year [...]
What Are the Trends in Second Careers?
I’ve spoken with many people over the past 6 months who have started new careers by starting their own business. I think this is a major trend for many boomers especially for those hey were downsized, outsourced, or laid off from their jobs. Some of these folks had an idea for a business for years [...]
Caareer Change Blockers for your Home Business
Career change failures outnumber career changes successes. At least that’s my take on becoming an entrepreneur and working out of your home. I’m writing an article for a Michigan business magazine, CORP magazine, about people who were downsized, laid off or retired and as a result, saw it as an opportunity to start their own [...]
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