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CNN Money’s Fortune has a great columnist, Anne Fisher.  In answering questions, she finds ways to pass along some great tidbits of helpful advice.  Today’s column was a winner.    A reader asked about the pros and cons of moving to find work in a different city.  Her response was good and even-handed, but what caught [...]

Every few weeks I get a very good question from a reader that gives me pause.  This came in today:
Last year you very generously took the time to reply to a response I had …[which]… contained the following advice, “The industries that seem to be more open to 50 plussers are: education (private and public), [...]

It’s been such a bleak week and it is impossible to put a good spin on anything economic right now.  I’m personally disgusted at the collapse of the world economy…kind of fall of the Roman Empire on steroids, really.  I was always brought up to believe that money was worthless in itself…that it was how [...]

Looking for something to do on Wednesday…around 11 PST or 2 EST? Then you might want to take part in the new form of online book touring — the online interview. Yours truly will be interviewing Gail Rentsch, author of Smart Women Don’t Retire—They Break Free: From Working Full-Time to Living Full-Time, live [...]

I’ve got some book reviews coming your way, but in case you want to get a head start on your mid-summer line up, here’s one for the boys…Bob Morris’ ASSISTED LOVING True Tales of Double Dating With My Dad (HarperCollins June 2008)What would you do if your eighty-year-old father dragged you into his hell-bent [...]

Nothing like an excellent re-brand to get my attention. As you may know from my earlier posts, we suffered a family tragedy. It is really hard to function in the normal day-to-day sense as your mind tries to comprehend and process the information, emotions and necessities of moving forward. In the spirit of moving forward, [...]

#1 — Login to your Gen Plus account http://genplususa.com/login.aspx#2 — Search for jobs and look for keyword “NASA”#3 — Apply to the coolest job opportunity for all — INCLUDING Boomers, 50 Plussers and retirees…
Huh? That’s right. Our good friends at Kelly Services have passed along a spectacular opportunity and I’m spreading the [...]

Boo! They are all scary. So it seems most appropriate to make some parallels between a search for “Mr. or Mrs. Right” and the search for “The Ultimate Job” on this scariest day of the year…Halloween!

On one of my other blogs, Love for Boomers and 50 Plus, I posted on online dating and the sheer [...]

What do you get when you bring together some of the best and brightest bloggers for a web news conference with a couple of powerful, grass roots movers and shakers? An hour of exciting, dynamic conversation supported by a wealth of experience and expertise. That is what happened earlier this week when top [...]

Due to some requests over the past year, I’m putting together a Town Hall meeting in Los Angeles, CA in the next couple of months. An interesting concept (more on this later) and some exciting experts are planning on joining us to share their thoughts and concerns about employment challenges for 50 plus. I’m [...]