Be An Entrepreneur To Aid Your Retirement

Entrepreneur

There’s probably a big difference between the career you imagined and the reality of your career. Are you satisfied with your potential retirement? Will it support you and your family as you’d imagined? You have a some options in the form of cutting expenses and adding additional income. Fortunately, you already have the skill set […]

How To Overcome Job Insecurity

Stress and Responsibility

You have worked hard to get to your executive position.  You have achieved a level of success you would like to sustain. You need several years of things going right to achieve your family goals. You are also wise enough to know bad things can happen.  Bad things happen to good people.  You’ve seen it […]

The Fallacy Of The Bigger Bonus

The bigger bonus

Some time right after the summer ends the bonus chatter begins. Usually the first person to start the conversation on the upcoming bonus season is a loser.  He/she knows it but hope dies slowly in the corporate compensation merry go round. As year-end approaches employees become hardened in their expectations.  Nights out with colleagues self-reinforces what the […]

The 5 Critical Components Of Surviving Job Loss

Fired from job

You’re Fired!  The sad reality is that most people get fired at some time in their career. The bad news for people in their 50’s is that this can be terminal to your retirement plans too.Implicitly we all know it’s hard to get a job at this age.  In addition to age bias, compensation becomes an […]

How to Change Your Retirement Plan

Change Retirement Plan

Your retirement plan, the old one probably sounded like this: Go to college then go to grad school. Get a great job and work hard. Do this and you retire with ample money after your kids have finished college. You Assumed Wrong This is the plan most of us grew up believing.  This was the safe and predictable […]