Make Your Retirement a Time to Give Back
I’m at the age when young college graduates ask to meet for advice on finding a job and, more importantly, a career. I always say yes; it’s fun. These meetings also reinforce a theme that emerged while...
View ArticleGoodbye Early Retirement, Hello Early Unretirement
Remember the ‘90s and the lure of early retirement? The catchphrase, a staple of personal finance articles at the time, painted pictures of fiftysomethings saying goodbye to their colleagues to embrace...
View ArticleHow to Retire Abroad and Make Money, Too
In 2013, at 70, Dr. David Vesely retired from work as a research scientist at the University of South Florida’s College of Medicine and chief of endocrinology at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital...
View ArticleThe Democratic Debate’s Missed Opportunity to Discuss Aging
After watching last night’s Democratic presidential debate (along with 15.3 million Americans) and the two earlier Republican debates, I’ve been surprised and disappointed at how the aging of the U.S....
View ArticleHow Older Performers Are Helping Us Rethink Aging
You may remember the line from the Buffalo Springfield song For What It’s Worth: “There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.” I couldn’t get that lyric out of my mind when I...
View ArticleWill You Really Be Able to Work Into Your 70s?
Seven years ago, when nearing 70, Dr. Samuel Lupin planned to retire from being a solo physician making house calls to elderly patients. Then his grandson Daniel Stokar, a recent Yeshiva University...
View ArticleAdd Volunteering to Your Unretirement Plan
(Next Avenue blogger and Unretirement author Chris Farrell now has a weekly Unretirement podcast on iTunes. You can listen to the first episode at the end of this article.) Terry Araman, of Phoenix,...
View ArticlePodcast: Recovering From a Job Loss After 50
Handed a pink slip in your 50’s? Looking for purpose and a paycheck in your 60’s? In the episode below of my free, weekly Unretirement podcast (roughly 25 minutes), listen to the story of Tene Wells,...
View ArticleSecond Career: Join the Craft Foods Movement
The popular image of today’s artisan-food producer is a bearded, hoodie-wearing Millennial and his tattooed partner operating out of a Brooklyn warehouse. But here’s the reality: The locally sourced...
View ArticleGig Economy: Better for Boomers Than Millennials
Everyone thinks the gig economy is for Millennials — Uber and Lyft drive-sharing services, AirBnB home rentals and the like. But if you ask me, the gig economy (aka the sharing economy and the...
View ArticleRethinking Retirement: Implications for Younger Generations
Sometime back in the early 1970s, I was caddying for my older brother (a boomer) and father. We were joined by a pair of sixtysomething businessmen who complained for several holes about boomers. They...
View ArticleHow Sci-Fi Robotic Gear May Help Older Workers
The Rise of the Exoskeletons sounds like a science fiction motion picture coming to a theater near you. But it’s really an exciting development for future retirees and unretirees that just might help...
View ArticleStartups After 60: A Solution for the Retirement Crisis?
Like many journalists writing about the boomer trend toward working in retirement, I’ve treated self-employment as the Plan B when Plan A (a full-time, salaried job) didn’t pan out. Entrepreneurship...
View ArticleHow Can I Find Meaningful Work In Retirement?
For much of the past three decades, the national personal finance conversation about boomers entering their retirement years has focused on savings and investing — having enough money forThe Number....
View ArticleWork in Retirement: Go From Customer to Employee
Most Americans age 50 and older plan on working past 65, according to the new survey Working Longer: The Disappearing Divide Between Work Life and Retirement from the Associated Press-NORC Center for...
View Article8 Easy Ways to Make Extra Money
(This article previously appeared on Grandparents.com.) Who doesn’t want to make money? “Surveys are very clear that the majority of boomers would like to work when they leave their big job, but would...
View ArticleShould Entrepreneurship Be a Company Benefit?
These days, many older workers with full-time jobs like to imagine the next chapter of their lives doing part-time work combining passion and a paycheck — perhaps transferring skills they’ve...
View ArticleAdd Volunteering to Your Unretirement Plan
(Next Avenue blogger and Unretirement author Chris Farrell now has a weekly Unretirement podcast on iTunes. You can listen to the first episode at the end of this article.) Terry Araman, of Phoenix,...
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 ArticleWhy Working Longer Is Good for Your Health
Retirement didn’t sit with Lee Humphrey when she tried it about a decade ago, at 62. About a year after leaving her St. Paul, Minn. job at the Department of Employment and Economic Development, she...
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