Employment

While millennials may flit from job to job, accumulating short stays in different companies and industries, many baby boomers have spent decades in just one industry, or even at one firm, building a distinguished and respected career. But what happens when those careers come to an end? What next? Where…

As our society grows older, the nature of the typical career arc is beginning to change. Few people now spend their entire careers at one position. Many of us now have two or even three careers over the span of our working lives. These changes are not without tension, however,…

It’s probably no surprise that older workers face discrimination in the hiring process. And for older women, the challenges are even greater, as a recent study from the Federal Reserve of San Francisco confirms. That makes no sense, given the experiential wisdom and wise perspective that older women can contribute to…

For many of us, retirement may be a time to kick back, relax and take it easy. But for those of us who are not the “retiring” type, our later years may be precisely the time to get creative and start a business. Apparently the fastest rate of entrepreneurship in…

For many of us who are approaching retirement or are just tired of the work we’ve done for the last umpteen years, the opportunity to remake ourselves with a new “encore” career is alluring. At the website Second Lives Club, founders Carrie Tuhy and Mary Lou Floyd occasionally blog about…

For many of us, our work is a source of pleasure or meaning. And equally, for many of us, working is essential to keeping us economically afloat. While physically demanding jobs may be difficult to continue as we get older, most of us assume we can put off retirement if…