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 [...]
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 [...]
Content for Your Website
Tweet You are making the transition from retiring after 35 years of teaching to a new business you’ve been thinking about for 10 years. You’ve done your research, worked with the local university offering courses for start up business and established some goals. Now you are working on establishing an online presence. You’ve spoken to [...]
Reduce Stress by Taking on Less
Tweet 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 [...]
Organizing Your Email Inbox Using Signatures
Tweet I’ve written about organizing your email inbox in the last 3 or 4 posts. This may seem like an endless topic because there actually is so much you can do. I’m only going to point out a few more things you can do. One of which is to organize your signature for each email [...]
Creating a Successful Internet Business
Tweet I wrote about how to find out what you know and then to connect those areas with what you like doing. My concept is to bundle those concepts together for your business. One missing ingredient is developing and nurturing what you already know. Particularly in this world what you know today may be obsolete [...]
Marketing for People Who Work for Themselves
Tweet “How do you make yourself work every day?” is one of the major questions friends and clients ask. The next favorite question is “How do you find enough paying clients to make a good living?” Most of these questions are from people who want to keep working because the economy is so fragile they [...]
Changing Direction in Career Transition
I am rethinking my internet business and marketing plan. It’s all because of an online course I’m taking which requires me to answer questions about my business and marketing approach that never occurred to me. Not only am I unsure of the answers I still am getting used to the questions. The presenter gives us guidelines and checklists to follow just as in most courses. However, if I don’t answer the questions the guides and checklists are useless because it’s those answers that I need to apply to the guidelines. I think if I were 25 years younger I would…
Retirement or Back to the Workforce?
My dad worked for only one company his entire working career, from age 19 to age 60. Times have changed and they continue to change. Today it is common to hold a series of jobs, change employers several times, and then probably get laid off and retool to gain new skills. Today people are also exploring different kinds of work arrangements such as job sharing, working at home, or even working while traveling with a smart phone and lap top. Making arrangements to work outside of the office comes as no surprise to me since I started my companies just…
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