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Don’t Beat Up Your Opponents Too Badly While Smiling

If you want career, financial, and social success, don't beat up your opponents too badly while smiling. This advice might sound odd or even obvious, but not adhering to it can have tremendous negativ...

financialsamurai.com Jun 20 2024

Legal Tender: Tallying Their Resources

#544 - Legal Tender: Tallying Their Resources Planning for retirement isn’t about creating a new job for yourself, it’s about using what you have to create a great life. On this episode of...

rogerwhitney.libsyn.com Jun 20 2024

Wondering If I'll Flunk Retirement

I've only been retired for about 3 weeks but I left a job I loved because of a new CEO that I couldn't work with or for, and because my partner retired a year ago and has been enjoying it. I guess you...

reddit.com Jun 19 2024

Part Time Work in Semi-Retirement

I am 63 and ready to leave my current job after 40 years. My wife is 4 years younger and works full time and will be able to provide health benefits. I would like to find something part time but I am ...

reddit.com Jun 13 2024

The Educator and the Esquire - Meet Mike and Judy

Would you like to have the confidence to know that it is all going to be okay so that you can walk away from your career? So would Judy! In this episode of Retirement Answer Man, you’ll meet Mik...

rogerwhitney.libsyn.com Jun 05 2024

Your Money: A Boot Camp for 20-Somethings

Advice, explainers and exercises on taking advantage of job benefits, creating a budget, paying off debt and thinking about your future....

nytimes.com May 15 2024

Interest only retirement? Thoughts or advice

I’m planning on working until the age of 70. I’m 54 now and I love my job. I get plenty of time off for travel, etc. My current expenses are 4k a month. I should get around 3k in SS,if I w...

reddit.com May 15 2024

Hello r/retirement

I'm the new part-time mod ... LumberingOldMod (part-time ... because I still have a full-time job). I will try to help MidAmericaMom out with the Mod Queue. I will try to keep the same moderation styl...

reddit.com May 10 2024

Late-career Injuries Come at a Steep Cost

About one in four workers in their 50s and early 60s has a physical or medical condition that limits their ability to work. These impairments can upend retirement plans and force them to make financia...

crr.bc.edu May 09 2024

There is only one job that I miss...Truck driver

I worked my way through college by driving various trucks over the summer. Pickups with refrigerators, a Ford that would not go over 37 MPH with plywood for the tailgate, etc. The open road, sunny day...

reddit.com Apr 30 2024

6 Questions Every 401(k) Investor Needs to Ask ASAP

If you’ve taken a new job, chances are you were automatically enrolled into a new 401(k), handed a welcome packet, and then left wondering what to do. The problem is that 63% of Americans don&rs...

401kmaneuver.com Apr 29 2024

Thoughts on my journey to retirement in Mexico

I was asked in another post to detail some of my retirement journey- specifically why and how we ended up in Mexico. I’d like to start by acknowledging that because of a fairly high income job f...

reddit.com Apr 11 2024

Advice for someone 5-10 years away from retirement

I am 55 1/2. Lost my wife 7 months ago. I have a job I enjoy, but working 40+ hours a week has been a grind and am looking forward to the day I can retire and start to do the hobbies that I thoroughly...

reddit.com Apr 06 2024

Tell Us Your Stories About Retirement

If you’ve reinvented your life after retiring from a career, we want to hear how it’s going and any advice you have for others....

nytimes.com Apr 05 2024

Getting A Doctorate Degree Instead Of A Fancy Tech Job

Education is the key to freedom for all of us. Therefore, I've made the decision to pursue a doctorate degree instead of seeking a fancy tech job. Specifically, I plan to earn a Doctorate in Business ...

financialsamurai.com Apr 01 2024

Struggling to Simply Relax Sometimes

I'm not really asking for advice, just sharing I guess. I am only 2.5 months into my retirement, and I am enjoying it immensely. I never even think about my old job, even though I worked there for alm...

reddit.com Mar 30 2024

Wish me luck. Giving notice of retirement

Wish me luck. I’m telling my boss of my intention to retire at the end of May. I’m 64 and my numbers look good. I have a good job and have been working from home for 10 years Work in a goo...

reddit.com Mar 29 2024

Caregivers Share their Stresses and Joys

Jacquelyn had finally snared her dream job as an assistant to a television writer in New York City. Riding the subway one Saturday night, she got a call that changed all that. Her mother, who was livi...

crr.bc.edu Mar 12 2024

On the Cusp of Retirement & having trouble

I wonder if there are others in my situation and how you've dealt (or are dealing) with it... I'm coming up on 63. I was laid off from a long-time job about a year and a half ago. I live in a rural ar...

reddit.com Mar 12 2024

Tools for Making Better Financial Decisions, Ep #211

While most of our listeners are in or on the cusp of retirement, many have loved ones who are earlier in their careers. Often we get questions on how our listeners and clients can help their younger f...

financialsymmetry.libsyn.com Mar 12 2024

When to give notice? Because I’ve had enough!

Hello. I am 7 weeks away from what I plan to be my last day at my very corporate and very stressful job. My manager is not the easiest to work for and I feel like I’d feel way less stressed w th...

reddit.com Mar 05 2024

8 No Interview Jobs Hiring NOW ($31/Hour+)

If you’ve ever been caught in the interview trap — when employers require an excessive number of interviews — only to be told you didn’t get the job, you’re in the right ...

thinksaveretire.com Mar 02 2024

That Sad Sunday Night Feeling...

I've spent my whole career life in 9-5 middle and upper management office jobs with high stress. I recently took an early retirement after the company was gutted in a layoff. And while it was absolute...

reddit.com Feb 29 2024

Decision to pull the plug to retire

I am curious to learn from those who retired. I am almost there or even there from a financial perspective. But I am finding myself delaying citing the following reasons I don't hate my job- it is tol...

reddit.com Feb 22 2024

Best part-time job in retirement?

I (61f) haven't worked in over a year. I worked in human services my whole career, and when they closed my program in November 2022, I didn't seek a new job. Now my wife (64f) is retiring in June, and...

reddit.com Feb 18 2024

How to Make Money Without a Job: 21 Ways in 2024

Most methods for earning money require you to work, at least to some degree. But after a long day at work, you might be looking for ways to earn that don’t require you to pick up yet another gig...

thinksaveretire.com Feb 15 2024

What types of part-time jobs do people do in retirement?

More specifically, if you had a higher level or analytical type of job prior to retirement, what kind of part-time work are you doing now? I am not interested in customer-facing, minimum wage jobs and...

reddit.com Jan 30 2024

Part time job fail, too soon after retirement?

After being retired about a month, I accepted a part time job that would utilize the skills I acquired during my career. People told me to wait before I made any commitments, but I didn't listen. The ...

reddit.com Jan 26 2024