Retirement Careers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Do you dream of retiring and making a living as a writer? The goal of this book isn’t to tell you how to write your story. There are plenty of books on that. The goal of this book is to help you with that next step in the journey. Publishing it. And by publishing it, I don’t mean helping you find a publisher or agent who will do the heavy lifting for you - I mean helping you do it yourself through self-publishing and bring home the income most writers only dream of!

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.

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.

"Conquer the CBP Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Certified Benefits Professional" is a comprehensive study guide designed to prepare candidates for the Certified Benefits Professional (CBP) exam. The book covers all essential domains, including benefits program design, health and welfare benefits, retirement plans, compensation, total rewards, ancillary benefits, executive compensation, family leave, and collective bargaining agreements. Each chapter delves into key concepts, providing detailed explanations, real-world examples, and practical applications to reinforce understanding. The ...

Are your family business and wealth prepared for major transition? Everything is in transition. Look around.... Business is in transition. Family is in transition. And the thing that no one wants to truly admit.... Wealth is in transition. You will be faced with some very difficult choices in the months and years to come. Now is not the time to bury your head in the sand and pray that challenges in your family business will magically work themselves out. You must be strategic.

Take the fear out of finance and live a stress-free life with this must-have guidebook on retirement planning! Millions of people around the world, particularly women, do not plan for retirement, because they do not believe they are required to or are capable of doing so. They squander their prime years by recklessly spending their money, and as they age, they come to regret their decisions.

Master the art of retirement, even amidst life’s unpredictability. If you're looking to enjoy life now while securing a future for yourself and your family, you're not alone. Many seniors struggle with balancing effective retirement management and maintaining a comfortable lifestyle. Retirement can be manageable. With the proper guidance, you can sustain your lifestyle without fearing financial depletion.

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.

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 ...

Featured on YouVersion Bible App Devotional Reading Plan. Feeling abandoned, lost or tossed about? Maybe you even felt like God has hung you out to dry in the desert! Favored Not Forgotten shows you the light about dark seasons in your life. Even the most promising opportunities begin with a "wilderness season." God has never been closer to you than now. Learn how to embrace these seasons of preparation for promotion. Learn how to Embrace the Season, Thrive in Obscurity, and Activate your Purpose in this exciting promise from God, and always remember that you are Favored, Not Forgotten.

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.

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.

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 ...

The need to transition clients from one advisor to another advisor can be triggered by many different circumstances. An advisor will make group referrals to a successor advisor when they are retiring, reducing their clientele, or changing their business model.