1: It Takes a Village: Recovering from Job Loss after 50
Handed a pink slip in your 50’s? Looking for purpose and a paycheck in your 60’s? Follow the story of Tene Wells in It Takes a Village: Recovering from Job Loss after 50. Wells abruptly lost her job at...
View Article2: From the Bronx to the Barn: Planning for a Sustainable Unretirement
Do you have a dream job, something you’ve always wanted to do but weren’t able to take the risk? Sylvia Burgos Toftness was commuting 65 miles each way from her home in Wisconsin, to her public...
View Article3: Should You Quit Your Day Job? Starting a Business in Retirement
Joe Anania was an airline mechanic who had a passion for motorcycles. In 2005, Joe Northwest Airlines mechanic colleagues went on strike. To bring in some money while waiting out the strike, he...
View Article4: Three Generations, One Roof: Living Together is Financially Savvy
“Are you sure you want to live with your mother-in-law?” That was the question that Saundra Plett asked her son-in-law a few years ago. Saundra and her husband, Dwight Miyake, were teachers in Fresno,...
View Article5: The Creativity Myth: Taking Creative Risks After Fifty
Iris Shiraishi, took up Japanese Taiko drumming in her forties. Now, in her early sixties, she’s taking artistic, creative and career risks she says she couldn’t have taken earlier in life. In this...
View Article6: Back to School: Are Professional Certification Programs Worth It?
Grieving after the death of her husband many years ago, Sandra Kollath’s sister finally told her she had to get out of the house and start doing something to help deal with her unhappiness. She signed...
View Article7: Grandma Drives an Uber: Why the Gig Economy is Better for Boomers than...
Need extra cash? Want to be your own boss and enjoy flexible hours? Sounds like an ad for a get-rich-quick scheme, doesn’t it? Not this time. Think the gig economy. More people–especially...
View Article8: Alan Page’s Unretirement: From NFL to State Supreme Court Justice to Mentor
Alan Page is about as unretired as you can get. He’s retired twice. Once from professional football in 1981 and in again in 2015 when he turned 70 and hit the mandatory retirement age for Minnesota...
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