from our new home to visit family back in New Jersey; although I knew I’d dropped the Friday-blogging ball for the first time in a long while, I simply could not pull everything together… (This qualifies as a benefit of retired life: leaving jobs undone even when you know they need...
The powerful commercial culture around us promotes “spend your way to happiness” and defines most people based on their jobs. Thus, the daily messages we are bombarded by say “keep working — forever!” Longer life expectancy and increasing problems with Social Security put even more pressure...
If you’re like me, those “what ifs” give you great concern and for very good reason. More and more senior citizens will need to continue some type of employment after reaching retirement age. Also, in ever increasing numbers, older people will be pushed out of jobs by a changing econo...
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It is not worth saving a few bucks to get into the IRS’s cross hairs – so hire professionals and write them the checks for jobs well done from your IRA/LLC checking account. You will always need a cushion in your IRA/LLC account – especially in the first few months when your cash...
what effect that might have on taxes moving forward in the future plus on your retirement. But we’ve had three major tax law changes within the last couple of years. We had the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which has artificially lowered marginal tax rates from 2018 to 2025. So we have this...
Then there are the young singles, working hard and studying for a degree that may not be very helpful for finding work. Jobs that had once taken an associate’s degree, now take a master’s, and debt-strapped students wallow in student loans. When Life Becomes Stifling The opportunities on...
Other forms of 'post retirement' work include delivery drivers, food service, retail greeters or clerks, child care, and other jobs that aren't far from minimum wage and are focused on 'survival'. Many of these are found in the US, but they're also foun...
Steve Jobs wanted a simple design for his products, and after a pleasant visit to an apple farm, suggested something in that vein to graphic designer Rob Janoff. Not wanting his stylized apple design to be misconstrued as a cherry, Janoff depicted the fruit with a big bite out of it. ...
work, or maybe some combination of both. As to whether JP is actually “between jobs” rather than retired--with five or six decades of life in front of her, who knows, maybe JP would do some work for money again in the future. I did for a couple years at one point during my ...