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I subscribe to the newsletter put out by Weddle’s (a career consulting, research, and publishing firm), and today, a very good article caught my eye.  This one is all about micro-careers.  I’ve referred to the shiftin the past as “career-chunking”, but I like the term “micro-career” very much.  The concept is simple — we will have many careers [...]

Not since 1941 has California hit such a high unemployment number.  If you had money, now would be a great time to buy up properties, stocks, artwork…if you had money.  But in addition to the 11.2% on the dole rolls, there are another few percentage points of the unemployed who don’t show up on these [...]

Yesterday, about half a dozen readers sent me an article from the LA Times on how the job market is especially tough for the older worker. Receiving an enormous amount of emails over the past several years from over 50 jobseekers at their wits’ end over trying to find a job…well, it wasn’t news to [...]

The fact that I’m old enough to remember watching my friends lose homes in the mid-eighties is scary enough.  But I wasn’t old enough then to understand global economic impact as I do now.  There are currently about 25 million Americans out of work and looking for work.  That is almost the population of Canada [...]

It is tough to blog consistently.  Like any writer, you have days of inspiration, where you don’t have enough time to write all the things you want to say…and then…like any writer, you have days with total, unwavering, heart-rending writer’s block.  It’s never that I don’t have something to say.  I can always talk and [...]

Globally, many countries are having to take stake in life-blood companies — in the US, banks like Bank of America, Citibank; in the auto industry, Chrysler and GM — and, well, you’ve read the news.  The more money that gets infused into the failing businesses, the  more nationalization will be taking place.  As an ex-pat [...]

With markets imploding, 50 plussers are losing jobs by the droves while seeing their nest eggs devastated. When I think of the economic journey we are faced with, regardless of demographic, and the responsibility that is laying on Barack Obama’s shoulders, I get the image of the mythological Greek Sisyphus endlessly pushing the boulder up [...]

The hurt keeps on coming.  This morning Microsoft announced their 2nd quarter results and with the global economy still limping along, put plans in place to lay off 5,000 staff over the next 18 months, included 1400 who got their pink slips today.
Always go to the source:  http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jan09/01-22fy09Q2earnings.mspx
In light of the further deterioration of global [...]

Next Monday, our Blogging Boomers Carnival (BBC) turns 100 installments old.  The BBC is a weekly, hosted collection of some of the best material on the Boomer blogger front.  100 weeks. 
And that gets me thinking. 
100 is a milestone.  A marker.  And also a reason for retrospect. 
When we started our now popular carnival, there were only [...]

 Chesley B “Sully” Sullenberger III  is being hailed as the hero pilot who saved 155 passengers from certain death yesterday as a US Airways Airbus lost both engines after Canadian geese burned out both plane’s engines and the pilot was forced to belly land the plane in the freezing waters of the Hudson River in [...]