I’ll be joining Jeff Carroll on WGN Radio tomorrow (Saturday 12/20) for his Runnin’ Down Your Dream program. Jeff’s show blends talk about boomer life transitions with inspirational music. Luckily, we have some shared taste in music, including Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. I’ll be on with Jeff and WGN’s Bill Moller tomorrow at 3:00pm [...] [read full article…]
The Purpose Prize award is given annually by the Encore Careers campaign to recognize trailblazers who have demonstrated creative and effective work tackling social problems. The 2008 winners were announced earlier this month, and the campaign has posted some great video features on each of the winners. If you’re looking for inspiration on your own [...] [read full article…]
Fargo, N.D., is known for cold winters and a population descended from Scandinavian and German immigrants. The town is 94 percent white and it’s an aging community–one in five residents is over age 55.But Fargo–actually a part of the bigger Fargo-Moorhead metro area that straddles North Dakota and Minnesota–isn’t a stranger to diversity. The town [...] [read full article…]
Arianna Huffington and others have taken note of President-elect Obama’s plans to call Americans to public service to address the country’s urgent problems. In a July campaign speech, Obama outlined his ideas for expanding existing programs like the Peace Corps, and launching new ones focused on education and energy; he also spoke extensively about [...] [read full article…]
Hey, all you laid-off, middle-aged bankers, accountants, programmers, marketers and other well-trained corporate types out there–listen up: Ever thought about working at a not-for profit?The business world is crumbling all around us, but non-profits have been growing faster than either the business or government sector–and they’re facing a shortage of talent. Best of all, the [...] [read full article…]
I’ve just signed on as a contributor to one of my favorite news websites, The Huffington Post. Founded by author and nationally syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington, HuffPost is one of the fastest-growing sites on the web. HuffPost is best known for political and media coverage, but the site also features coverage of business, lifestyle [...] [read full article…]
A coalition of groups including AARP, Elderhostel, and the Vital Aging Network sponsored the First Positive Aging Conference in December 2007. I attended the event, and it was an extraordinary gathering of more than 400 people who came together to learn, talk and network about purpose, meaning and vitality in the second half of life. [...] [read full article…]
Finding a job is challenging for anyone in tough economic times but it’s harder if you’re over age 50. It’s illegal for employers to discriminate based on age, but any older job-seeker will tell you it happens every day. That reality is colliding with the intent of baby boomers, most of whom hope—and need—to keep working [...] [read full article…]
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently launched a new website specifically targeted for boomers interested in becoming entrepreneurs. 50+Entrepreneur isn’t an overwhelmingly rich site from a content standpoint, but it does include useful information on how to tap the SBA for advice and small business loans. It’s also interesting that SBA is recognizing [...] [read full article…]
If you’ve been distracted lately by lipstick, bridges to nowhere and the ongoing financial meltdown on Wall Street, you might have missed one of this election season’s most significant events. On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, Barack Obama and John McCain participated in a presidential forum on national service. The forum was part of a Service [...] [read full article…]
RetirementRevised.com is the companion website of Retire Smart, a column written by Mark Miller that appears in more than 30 newspapers each week. For millions of Baby Boomers, retirement is an opportunity for reinvention, rather than taking it easy. Mark is helping write the playbook for the new career and personal pursuits of a generation.
