Small Business Boomers

Many of us Baby Boomers are heading back into the job market, either as a result of retirement finances that don’t meet our income needs or because we have been laid off from our jobs.  If you aren’t ready to retire yet, you might be surprised to learn that those young recruiters and HR people think you should be.  And your big resume could be a negative instead of a positive.
Too Qualified? The Wall Street Journal reports that many former high-level business types are finding it difficult to make the transition to smaller level jobs.  In my case, with an …read more

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When my husband retired a few months ago he said he was disheartened by the way his company treated him and other older employees.  He said it seemed as if the company was trying to get rid of him so they could hire younger, cheaper employees.  But he said that they didn’t know anything, and the company wasn’t willing to train them.  He spent most of his last 5 years training new employees (unofficially, of course).  By shoving out the older employees, the company was losing valuable institutional memory and knowledge.  But were these older workers really that costly to …read more

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