A recent study by the Federal Reserve revealed that more individuals 55+ years are now working longer. This is a turnaround of the style of a couple of decades earlier. It seems the Baby Boomers are not retiring as early. There are a few reasons: 1. They can not afford to retire. In [...]

It's happening again. One of the perverse hallmarks of the Great Recession ten years ago was the expulsion of many older workers from the workforce. A significant amount of experienced employees found themselves forced into sudden unemployment or premature retirement. Many never fully recovered financially or emotionally and their careers were left scarred [...]

Most experts on the subject believe that the Social Security system will be bankrupt in about 15 years. However, some new studies have offered a ray of hope. They seem to indicate that the assumption that the boomer generation will retire at 65 or 67 and sit back to collect their social security [...]

There has been a major transformation during the last decade or so in the way people look for employment opportunities. Hard copy resumes and cover letters, newspaper ads, and face-to-face interviews have gradually given way to LinkedIn and Facebook profiles and personal websites, electronically transmitted career materials, job boards and web searches, and [...]

Where Do We Go From Here? Do you have dreams of a new career after years of tenure with a large corporation? Do you want very much to find a new you? Have you already had a fulfilling career of raising your children and now long to enter the work force? Have personal [...]

It depends on what study you read or who you listen to, but there is a fact facing many employers - there are 76 million people born between 1946 through 1964, commonly referred to as the baby boomers. By many estimates, 9.2 million business owners are over 50 years old and an estimated [...]

This is Earth Day. I see bicycles everywhere and people making an extra effort to be consciously green. When I thought about areas where I could be greener or add to the intel about recycling, I realized that as a retirement coach, I could effect a different slant on recycling: PEOPLE. People - [...]

As an early "Baby Boomer" ie, one of those human beings born in the period after World War II and until the early 1960s, I've been giving a lot of thought during the last few years about how much longer I will work and what I'll do after I retire. It could be [...]

One of the biggest reasons Baby Boomers fail as they get older is not because they are unproductive people. Rather, what happens to Boomers is what has plagued generations of people for years. They get comfortable and fail to do what they did in their younger years when they were active, successful and [...]