Goodbye, Boomers

I have been writing for Small Business Boomers for almost 18 months.  I feel I found a home here and cut my teeth, so to speak, on blogging.  But it’s time to move on. In February I started doing the daily Small Business section for b5media’s Bizzia portal, and I find myself torn between that assignment, Small Business Boomers, and Home Biz Notes. So today is my last day at Small Business Boomers.

I have enjoyed writing about Baby Boomers in small businesses, learning about how Boomers have managed to succeed…and sometimes fail.  I have learned from experts like Jeff Thredgold and Bill Losey.  And I discovered the top holiday movies of all time.  I hope you have learned, and laughed, and cried, along with me.

A couple of final thoughts:

Baby Boomers are under-appreciated, discriminated against, and ignored.  It still bothers me that I can’t find photos of baby boomers anywhere.  Someone needs to start a boomers photo service.  When there are layoffs, Boomers are being laid off first.  Experience is not appreciated.

We Boomers were cut out of our defined benefit pensions and told, “Go invest all this money on your own.”  Then when our investments lost 30-40 percent, who was there to bail us out?  We got caught in a Perfect Storm – lost pensions – depleted 401(k)s and – mark my words – reduced Social Security benefits.

Despite that, we are large, and strong, and really great people.  We’ll figure a way out of this.  We protested Vietnam, marched with Martin Luther King Jr, created the Beatles, and put a man on the moon. We can do anything.  Including becoming successful business people.

Thanks, Boomers!