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By Richard Eisenberg on Mon Jan 27 2025

If you’re thinking about working part-time in retirement, be sure to think these things through. EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is part of The Great Unretirement, a Next Avenue initiative made Read more

By Lin Grensing-Pophal on Tue Dec 03 2024

Jackie Lange founded her company, Panama Relocation Tours, after moving to Panama in 2010. Popular wisdom suggests that successful entrepreneurs and business leaders get their start early in life. Read more

By Deborah Lynn Blumberg on Mon Nov 18 2024

Some are bored and some are broke; one was just tired of needlessly long lines at the drug store. Others started new careers as rabbis, doulas, and resort owners. Gerry Galewski of Milwaukee retired Read more

By Richard Eisenberg on Mon Oct 28 2024

Breaking Down Barriers is a nonprofit founded by Doug Parker, the former Chairman and CEO of American Airlines, as his "unretirement" project after he stepped down. It's goal is to train more POC as Read more

By Cynthia Staton and Edd Staton on Wed Oct 16 2024

A surprising number of older adults are retiring from retirement, whether because they need money or miss the satisfaction of work. Retirement was formalized in the United States with the Read more

By Terri Williams on Mon Jul 01 2024

If you keep abreast of the news on a regular basis, it's rare to go even one day without hearing about the spread of artificial intelligence. From customer service to cybersecurity to inventory Read more

By Nancy Collamer on Mon May 20 2024

As a young girl growing up in Valley Stream, New York, Lori Thomson dreamed of someday opening her own business. "I always wanted to build something for myself," she says. "Although at the time I Read more

By Erin Jay on Mon Apr 29 2024

Like millions of Americans, Steve Powell was a caregiver for his aging parents. "My mother and father both had a chronic falling problem," the former tech worker said in a phone interview. "It got to Read more

By John Wasik on Mon Mar 11 2024

Jon Polonsky (in photo above) is CEO of Plaid Pantry, a chain of gas station/convenience stores in the Pacific Northwest. My wife and I bought our first fully electric vehicle, a used, Read more

By Hanna Horvath on Thu Feb 29 2024

Companies that went cashless in the past few years, whether to increase the speed of transactions or reduce the theft of cash, are experiencing some whiplash. Take salad chain Sweetgreen, which Read more