Buying Experience

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

  Career Development  

My father is going to retire this year and it's making him more than a little concerned (I as well). He really doesn't want to leave his job nor has he been asked to, but his company has been undergoing some financial shakeups and he's decided to get out of the game before he's shown the door with a stock and retirement package that might be "reconfigured" without his best interests in mind. Money won't be his real problem when he leaves his firm however; boredom will.

He's not a person with big outside interests--he has no real hobbies, nor is he a traveler. He does like to be busy and mentally challenged, though. Soon to be joining a rapidly expanding demographic of a smart, active, experienced and "mature" former workforce, I've been looking into options for him to pursue so that he doesn't start actually growing old.

For those people who are having the same concerns, I've been encouraged to find that there is a strong need in the labor market for these grey-haired greats as long as they have patience in their job search.

Getting Some Gold in the Golden Years

Progressive retirees are starting to look at retirement as an opportunity not just to start studying gardening, but instead reduce their work hours and perhaps begin a job sharing program--thus creating a mentor/student environment that can help build better relations between …

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