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Where should retirees look for employment?

What must you do to get a job? Consider this: How many other workers can do what you do? Where are the jobs? What jobs are appropriate for older Americans? Many of these jobs require skills you must acquire. Sure there are all kinds of opportunities for pharmacists, nurses, chemists and researchers, but at this stage of your life these may not be ...

Baby Boomers: Resumes and Cover Letters for Ages 50 and Older

If you are a Baby Boomer, you are a part of a generation that is headed toward retirement. However, due to our slumping economy, there is a chance that even if you are able to retire, you could be making a u-turn right back into the workforce to supplement your retirement savings. With competition being so stiff, it may seem that the odds are against you for getting hired, especially having ...

Four Ways to Protect and Enlarge Your Nest Egg

Concerned about your retirement savings? You�re in good company. Many folks investing for or in retirement are seeing their savings shrink. Many are concerned about their inability to save more and enlarge their retirement capital. In my book �Cash-Rich Retirement�, I argue that it�s time to take a different, much less speculative approach to enlarging and protecting your nest egg. �It�s not ...

Too Old To Fail Again

I know this is going to sound crazy to you, but genius prophets like me, Johnny Oops, age much more rapidly than normal folks. It�s something in our genius genes I think. They are much too aggressive. The result is that as youngsters we grow up both physically and mentally much sooner than others, and then as we hit our prime we start to age much quicker than normal people. It isn�t obvious to ...

Nine Questions about Baby Boomer Retirement that your Company Must Answer

Can you answer these questions about Baby Boomer retirements at your company? The first five are about raw numbers: How many people at your company are eligible to retire in each of the next ten years? The odds are good that not everyone who is eligible to retire will do so. But it's a good idea to consider how many people could leave at a moment's notice and when they're eligible to do so. ...

Retired Brains Need Exercise

Actually, employers are interested in hiring you, as they have found that seniors provide: � Quality customer service experience � Stability Ability to initiate sales and transaction dependability Eagerness to provide support and guidance Superior communication skills Varied work experience Better ability to work with mature clientele An old-fashioned work ethic* Many employers ...

Education Can Be a Lifelong Process

Studies have shown that seniors who spend time on educational activities have better cognitive function and retain their memories longer than seniors who do not. Additionally, attending educational programs give seniors the opportunity to interact with others of their age group and with younger people as well. This helps alleviate the isolation and depression that many seniors develop. ...

The Freedom to Work

The following is an excerpt from the book Encore by Marc Freedman The year is 2030. The youngest baby boomers are midway through their sixties and starting to claim their Social Security benefits. And none too soon, since the coffers are nearly empty. As many boomers say with only a touch of irony, at least we got ours. The fittest boomers still boast that eighty is the new sixty, but ...

New Middle Aged Group Benefits Committee

We Want What We Are Entitled To As a group, people over fifty account for over $2.4 trillion in annual income, which translates into more than 42% of all after tax income in the US. We want what we are entitled to. We want recognition as the wealthiest group in the nation. We are more than 78 million strong, and control more than 67% of the Country�s wealth. We want to be catered ...

A Post Retirement Job � A Great Way to Stretch Your Retirement Savings

As a part of your retirement planning, have you considered a post retirement job? Continued income from a post retirement job can have a very positive impact on your retirement finances. Let�s do a fast calculation to see the positive impact of a post retirement job. Let�s calculate the amount of investment that you need to generate a monthly income of $1,000 per month. To do ...

Become a Consultant in Your Retirement

I read the results of a previous survey taken by Beyond.com that said 86% of Beyond.com professionals planned to work beyond retirement. That number is in line with other studies I have read. The Boomer generation is not destined for the rocking chair on the front porch. Becoming a consultant is a normal career path for a person who has worked at their pre-retirement job for 35 ...

Building A Secure Future Through Retirement Planning
Planning for retirement is a crucial part of your life and career. Whether you are young � or not so young � you have to be sure to take the proper measures to ensure your financial future. It�s never too late to start, but you have to start now. The 401(k) A 401(k) is a great savings tool and a good way to start saving for your retirement, no matter what stage of retirement ...

Work At Home Seniors: Earn Big Dollars
Just because you are in your fifties or sixties plus doesn�t mean you can�t earn a substantial income working from home. There are many opportunities out there to earn big money working from home. Most of these work at home opportunities are on the Internet. Don�t let your lack of computer knowledge stop you from pursuing a new career and making a fresh start. Become part of the new ...

Work At Home
The Longevity Express is here. People are starting to live longer faster than ever before. Isn�t it wonderful? The average age is now around eighty and climbing quicker than the actuarial tables have estimated. People in their fifties and sixties now consider themselves part of the new middle aged. More and more of them are starting to work from home. Where will it all end? No one knows, but ...

Yes You Can Work At Home
You have probably wondered whether people like yourself in their fifties or sixties who are part of the new middle aged group can find profitable work from home opportunities on the Internet that they can turn into businesses of their own. The answer is yes, but you have to be careful. There are a lot of scams out there and it is sometimes difficult to tell the hype from the real ...

Working At Home Seniors
I can�t afford to retire; I need additional income to support my wife and I in the lifestyle we are accustomed to. Our pensions and savings just don�t do the trick. Sound familiar? Too many people in their fifties and sixties plus are discovering that they need to find a way to supplement their retirement incomes. They don�t want to continue to work in the jobs they have held all their ...

Retirement is Bridging the Generation Gap
Talk of retirement today is spanning generations. In today's economy, those approaching retirement are not the only ones planning for their last day in the workplace. With the numerous options and ways to save for the day when you are no longer woken up by that dreaded alarm clock, everyone from entry level employees to corporate executives have retirement on the brain and are avidly ...

New Middle Age Group And Their New Careers
Please feel free to use this article as long as credit is given to the resource box. Keywords: New Middle Aged Group, New Beginning, Starting Over, New Career, New Venture, Work at Home, Baby Boomers � Copyright Arthur Levine 2007 Words: 491 There are over 78 million Baby Boomers, and a lot of them are getting ready to start new careers as they enter a new stage in their lives and ...

Marketing To The New Middle Age
As baby boomers start turning sixty, and health care innovations continue to increase longevity, many people in their fifties, sixties, and even seventies have come to think of themselves as part of a new middle age. This new group of middle age people (NMAP) has strong opinions of what they want to buy to make their lives happier and healthier and how they want to live. Marketing to them ...

Looming Boomer Retirements

They were born - in droves - after World War II, becoming the largest sustained population surge in U.S. history. They were Dr. Spocked in their infancy and Mr. Spocked in their adolescence. They've trail-blazed, followed, and reinterpreted many stages of life and culture, from free-and-easy lifestyles to two-income families.

And now they're getting old. The baby boom generation - ...