The Los Angeles Times writes about baby boomers using the increased equity in their homes to finance a reinvention of their lives. Notwithstanding recent housing woes, most boomers who have lived in their homes for more than a few years have a great deal of equity and are capable of using some of that to pay for a new start somewhere else. »more»

"...for the past 75 years federal policy has been designed around easing folks who are past 50 out of the workforce rather than enticing them to stay in it."

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What would you do if you suddenly became a multimillionaire? Sleep in every day? Golf? Say goodbye to the work life forever? Or would you go back to work?

The LA Times looked at a variety of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who had become millionaires and found the surprising answer that many of them in fact did go back to work. Take the example of Mark Pincus who sold his company for $38 million in 1996. For a year he lived a life with almost no responsibilities but eventually tired of the lifestyle, saying: »more»

“But I don’t know what I want to do?” This frustrated exclamation wasn’t coming from a twenty-something. This was my 52 year old coaching client. He had a 26 year career under his belt and wanted a change. He knew he wanted to take the early-out retirement being offered and start a new life. But doing what? »more»

Your career choice impacts your quality of life, standard of living, personal identity, and much more. By the time you hit middle age, career changes are far from easy, but many people feel a mismatch with the career that they had selected earlier in life and want to at least explore the possibility of pursuing a new career. Are you one of these people? »more»

Do not confuse hard work with workaholism.

People who work hard know the boundaries between their work lives and their personal lives, workaholics do not. Hard workers can function normally when not at work; workaholics cannot. Hard work is healthy, workaholism is not. »more»

Simply Hired describes itself as a "vertical search engine". To people outside of Silicon Valley, this means they are a search engine (like Google) focused on a particular market, in this case jobs. They claim to be building the largest online database of jobs on the planet and they are backed by Fox Interactive, the same Murdoch company that now owns MySpace. »more»

Bob Barker of "The Price is Right" has decided to retire at the age of 83. The best part is Barker's quote:

"...I've decided to retire while I'm still young." »more»

A new study says that 77% of today's workers plan on working after their formal retirement, but current retirees would probably wish them luck. »more»

First off, and thanks to the Boomer Chronicles, we can tell you that "older" workers are becoming the norm and not the exception.

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