Susan Damour flunked retirement. She tried it at age 64 in 2008 along with her husband, Tim, who was 68. That lasted a year. Overseas travel, cooking and knitting baby sweaters for the grandchildren weren’t enough to satisfy her. Tim, a retired attorney, was happy, but she hated it. “I’m an extrovert,” Damour says. “I [...] [...more]
Mark Zuckerberg is the world’s best-known entrepreneur–a poster-child for success who started Facebook (FB) in his Harvard dorm room. But the ranks of entrepreneurs include plenty of poster children who aren’t kids. Baby boomers have racked up the highest rate of start-ups during the last decade. In recent years, some entrepreneurs have found going solo is [...] [...more]
Women face distinct retirement-planning challenges, including higher longevity risk, less access to workplace retirement plans, and continued wage discrepancies. Now, author and retirement expert Jan Cullinane offers a book focusing solely on the issues and challenges confronting single women in retirement. The Single Woman’s Guide to Retirement (John Wiley & Sons) will walk you through the [...] [...more]
Growing numbers of older Americans who have struggled to find work in the wake of the Great Recession are doing something they once considered unthinkable: They are taking temporary jobs. And this is one of the best job moves they can make, according to Kerry Hannon, author of the new book AARP Great Jobs for [...] [...more]
Career change often begins with a jolting disruption, like a job loss, a health problem or family issues. For Becky Loyacano, 57, change began with one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed Loyacano’s home in Slidell, Louisiana in 2005, it also crushed the New Orleans native’s work selling disability insurance. [...] [...more]
