Retirees Finding Second Careers is a Growing Trend Retirees finding second careers or encore careers are a growing trend these days. As more people live longer, they continue to seek out meaningful work and many still need a pay check. Many workers are finishing one career only to start another in their late 60′s and [...]
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 [...]
Age Discrimination Issues
Age discrimination issues are always on my mind but somehow I’ve avoided writing about them. My impetus is one of my good bridge friends. She applied for a job at a graduate division of a university for conference management. She has been managing conferences for universities, large organizations, and professional associations for 20 years. Her [...]
Career Change Timing is Everything
We all know the saying, “timing is everything” so we shouldn’t be surprised that the old cliché also applies to career change. A few years back the old Merrill Lynch Group did a survey about retirement and concluded that many of the traditional financial assumptions regarding retirement needed to be reexamined. For instance: Three quarters [...]
Starting a New Business In Midlife
I have come across more and more people – almost all baby boomers and a handful of free wheeling just out of school youngsters – who have started their own business on the internet. There are a couple of main reasons that boomers are thinking about a midlife change and acting on it no. First, [...]
Tips for Older Job Seekers
It isn’t easy looking for a job and you have every right to be worried that you are more likely to be discriminated against because of your age. However, you could look on the bright side and imagine how fortunate any employer would be to hire you because you are more mature, more reliable, and [...]
Turning Your Hobby Into a Career
Outrageously successful people who turned their hobbies into huge businesses are frequent guests at TV talk shows. These same folds get paid tens of thousands to speak at motivating conferences or have books ghost written that become NY Times best sellers. I’m told there are many more people who could do the same but haven’t [...]
Create Your Coaching Program To Fit Your Needs
I’ve created a series of posts on coaching. In this post I’m writing about fitting your needs. In my last post I wrote about creating your coaching business based on your experience. And the post before that was how to use your personality to help brand your business. All of that only works when you [...]
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