Retirement Careers

Conquer the CISP Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Certified IRA Services Professional is a comprehensive study guide designed to help financial professionals prepare for the Certified IRA Services Professional (CISP) exam. Covering key topics such as IRA documentation, contributions, retirement plan portability, distributions, and retirement planning considerations, this guide provides a thorough understanding of the rules and regulations governing individual retirement accounts (IRAs). The book offers in-depth explanations of essential concepts like Roth and traditional IRAs, beneficiary ...

Award-winning financial journalist Joel Kranc presents basic but essential strategies to start your retirement planning today. Retirement Planning in Eight Easy Steps is a quick and easy way to start learning about retirement planning, helping you envision your ideal retirement and how to get there through investment planning, maximizing social security benefits, and the other basics central to sound financial planning for retirement.

How To & Advice - How To Retire Without Money delves deeply into the subject of retirement at any age and includes discussion on retirement communities, retirement decisions, retirement essentials, retirement goals, retirement ideas, retirement life, and retirement on a shoestring. It is every person’s goal to eventually retire but the current state of the economy has people working long past the accepted retirement age of 65 and actually pushing it to 70.

Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next 30 years on a golf course. These men and women are moving beyond midlife careers yet refusing to phase out or fade away. As they search for a calling in the second half of life and focus on what matters most, these individuals stand to transform the nature of work in America.

Are you tired and fed up with the typical book that leaves you trying to figure out how and what to invest in to protect your future? Finally, Ken Himmler teaches you how to create an easy to understand step by step plan to create a protected, sustainable lifetime income, without worry.

Laying out the nine common hazards that trip up otherwise well-prepared retirees to encourage you to think through your decisions and set a course aligned with your values and your ultimate goals, Retirement Fail helps you identify potential pitfalls and teaches how to safeguard your hard-earned retirement assets. Contrary to what most people think, it is not poor portfolio performance that usually busts your retirement accounts. Rather, it's the emotional decisions you make that can cause major problems.

Striking out on your own for the first time is exhilarating. But in a culture full of bad advice, predatory banks, and splurge-now-pay-later temptations, it can also be extremely dangerous - leading you to make financial decisions that could hurt you for years to come. Combine this with a slumped economy, mounds of student loans, and dubious examples from reality TV stars to politicians to your own parents, and it’s no wonder so many twenty-somethings are struggling.

Barbara Boxer has made her mark, combining compassionate advocacy with scrappiness in a political career spanning more than three decades. Now, retiring from the Senate, she continues the work to which she's dedicated 30 years in Congress. Her memoir, The Art of Tough, shares her provocative and touching recollections of service, and cements her commitment to the fight for women, families, quality, environmental protection, all in a peaceful world.

Forget searching for the right job - start building a life in which you don't need a job. A job-free life is possible, and you have options about how to achieve it. This book provides real-world examples of people who have successfully quit the rat race using four different strategies: extreme saving, unjobbing, lifestyle businesses, and startups. Whether you want to achieve financial independence and retire early, or simply never work for anyone else again, this book provides an essential guide.

This systematic approach will build you a life of financial abundance, no matter how much money you have. Are you constantly thinking about your retirement and feeling unsure if you’ll have enough to survive? Perhaps you’re still in your youth and want to explore how you can use your money to earn even more - setting yourself up for a successful early retirement? Whatever the case may be, rest assured that old age and retirement don’t have to be some kind of big and complex ordeal.

Practical, spiritual, and above all soundly financial, The Courage to Be Rich addresses the rites of passage we all must face - marriage, divorce, death; spending (and overspending) on life's necessities and luxuries; taking control of our financial tomorrows today. Orman shows us how to find the clarity, conviction, and courage to meet the obstacles and opportunities of a lifetime.

We have been conditioned to think a certain way for a long time. Work a nine-to-five job. Set up a 401(k). Work for 40 years and hope things work out. Unfortunately, society has rigged the game against you and made it harder for you to win with your finances. This book will provide you with an alternative way to view your finances and give you the knowledge and insight on what a very small percentage of Americans are currently doing with their money. Most of what is talked about inside this book you won't ever hear your financial adviser or CPA mention to you.

Enrich your life and bank account — from a struggling entrepreneur to a happy millionaire in less than a year. Where would you like to be five years from now? On a beach, were you sipping exotic cocktails or your favorite beer? Or are you enjoying retirement and reaping the profit of your multi-million dollar businesses? For now, this seems like a mere dream because you are deep in debt, living hand to mouth, and about to give up on becoming successful.

Listening to this audiobook together with your children will be one of the best things you will ever do for them to help them succeed in finances in life. Some of the best things in life may be free, but most of them cost money. Buying toys, sweets, food, clothes, going to the movies, and renting video games etc...all cost money. While our ancestors may have traded to receive much of what they needed today, we use cash.

What do you do when you fall through the loopholes in the system and all you have to rely on are your own wits? Lois and Sophie have scrambled and saved for years, planning for their retirement in Florida. But now they've lost it all, and Lois' sniper training from her long-ago service as an Army nurse leads to a desperate career choice. When Detective Morgan Holiday is assigned to investigate a spate of sniper killings, it's just one more stress point in her already overburdened life.

Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways. This groundbreaking book explains the transformations that have taken place in the workplace over the past several decades and how those transformations have combined to produce a dramatically different career landscape.

Financial Wellness and How to Find It takes finance out of the business pages and into our personal lives. It tells us that the way we think about money has a lot to do with the way we think about ourselves, and the stories we believe about what we deserve. When you feel bad about money, it's hard to feel good about life. We focus on health and wellness as essential for happiness, but so often we choose to bury our heads in the sand when it comes to taking positive action over our finances.

Do you ever ask yourself about your life after retirement? Did you already make some strategic decisions? Struggling with a plan you should start today? The truth is most of us are coming to these questions one day. And if your answer is yes to any of these questions, Retirement Strategies might be the solution for you.

Conquer™ the CPSP Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Certified Plan Sponsor Professional is a comprehensive study guide designed to help professionals master the key concepts and responsibilities required to pass the Plan Sponsor Council of America Certified Plan Sponsor Professional (CPSP) exam. The book delves deeply into essential topics such as plan design, fiduciary responsibilities, investment management, participant education, compliance, and plan administration. Each chapter is structured to provide detailed explanations, practical examples, and insights into real-world ...

This book is a collection of railroad stories from the first day in 1970 until retirement in 2008. It is 202 pages of photos and short collections of thoughts and reflections. It's a growing up experience of a lost young man on a life journey down the railroad over 38 years. It's the joys and struggles of every day life on the railroad. It takes the reader from the first days knowing it was just a summer job, to the final days as a career wound down. The fears and unknowns on the first day were just as strong on the last day walking out the door for the last time. It was like a prisoner ...