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The Remix Economy: Career Reinvention Is the Most Valuable Business Skill

For decades, career success in our economy followed a familiar script: earn a degree, build experience, climb the corporate ladder, and retire after a steady progression of promoti...

Midlife Career Change: When Your Career No Longer Feels Right

ou worked hard to get here. You built your career, gained experience, earned respect, navigated changes, raised families, met deadlines, solved problems, and probably handled more...

16 Best Work at Home Careers for People Over 50

Are you ready for a career change? Have you decided to re-enter the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom? Maybe you want to add more money to your retirement savings account. K...

Think You’re Too Old To Start Over? These 15 Second-Act Careers Say Otherwise

You’re staring down a layoff notice, or you already got one, and every job posting in your old field wants someone twenty years younger who’ll take half the salary. Meanwhile your...

Two New Books And The Rise Of The Q3 Career

People want to work after 50, but do employers want them? Two new books explore the gap between individuals who want to work longer and employers who won't let them.

The best second careers for the over-50s: It's not too late to change your life with these lucrative jobs that require m...

By your 50s you're likely to have had the same career for years or even decades. But if you're sick of it, you don't need to coast along miserably until retirement.

18 side hustles that bring in real money after 50

You’re 57. The severance ran out months ago, LinkedIn has gone quiet, and the last recruiter who called wanted someone with “energy” for two-thirds of your old salary. Getting rehi...

This Gen Xer spent 28 years in a cubicle and never made more than $70,000. At 59, she made $500,000 in the creator econo...

Some creators are finding their age can be an advantage as brands try to reach older consumers.

21 Great Part-Time Jobs for Retirees Who Aren’t Ready to Call It Quits

These opportunities offer part-time work, flexible hours and extra pay for retirees.

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Unfinished Business: Can We Finally Have It All in Retirement?

I announced my decision to retire just before my 65th birthday. It wasn’t my first retirement. A divorce forced the sale of my business at the crack of Covid. My emergency back-up...

Identity After Retirement: Meeting Your Best Self

Retirement is bittersweet for anyone who enjoyed a long, productive career within an industry of choice. Fortunately, leaving a career does not require shedding identity.

The New Q3: The 25 Years We Never Planned For

Longer lives have created a new 25-year quarter between 50 and 75. The New Q3 reframes these years as a time of becoming—a major opportunity for business and all of us.

I'm applying to entry-level jobs at 56 and can't even get an interview. My confidence has taken a hit — so I'm pivoting.

Jennifer Mannix, 56, changed careers after 30 years. Getting an entry-level interview has been challenging, and she thinks her age plays a role.

How women over 40 can use personal branding to reclaim their careers

For decades, Cindy Gallop worked in the advertising industry, building brands. But at 45, she stepped away from her career and built her own. Now, at 66, she’s known as the founder...

9 Stealthy Ways to Prepare for a Career Change After 50 (Without Tipping Off Your Boss)

Lay the groundwork for your next move while keeping your current income intact.

After 20 years at IBM, I changed careers and started a side gig. Now it's a 7-figure company — here’s how I grew it.

Becky DeGrossa, 66, worked at IBM and then became a therapist before opening CounselingWise as a side gig. It's now her full-time, $2M business.

20 Great Part-Time Jobs for Retirees

These jobs let retirees dial back the intensity of work while bringing in a paycheck.

Job Hopping Paid Off For Older Workers. Gen Z May Miss Its Chance

The big raises that once made job switching a smart salary strategy have disappeared. That could hurt the long-term earnings of workers under 35.

Laid Off at 60? Here Are Some Tips for Starting Over

A sudden layoff can force a rethink of retirement timing, health coverage and the skills or contacts that may open a new door

Retirement isn’t the end of medicine, it’s a second act [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Many doctors picture themselves practicing until the day they die. Andrea Hayes decided otherwise,...

Retirement as Personal Fulfillment: Achieving Independence

Post-retirement living can be the most fulfilling and exciting new chapter in life.

I spoke to 6 people who bounced back from a career break. These 3 lessons stuck with me.

After interviewing six people who took career breaks, reporter Charissa Cheong learned lessons about networking, new opportunities, and sacrifice.

Finding Purpose: Reinventing My Mainframe Career

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