Early Retirement Blog

Doug Horan is 62 years old and unemployed.   Over the past 18 months, he has applied for 1,000 jobs, and is still unemployed.   Doug’s job search story, shared by millions of other older workers, is recounted in a San Francisco Chronicle article.   Doug Horan and everyone else over 55 years old should, [...]

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School Teacher Layoffs Stop Here School Teachers  can stop layoffs.  School teachers do not need to lose their jobs.  Your school district can prevent layoffs by retiring not firing it’s teachers.   If your school district is offering you a voluntary early retirement incentive, try our free voluntary early retirement incentive calculator, to find out [...]

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Pink Slip Party  Ends in Tragedy First Mate: “Captain! Captain! We just hit an iceberg, the ship is sinking, what should we do!” Captain: “Alert the band, clear the deck,  prepare to party!” Pink Slip Parties are sweeping the nation.  In New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and even Connecticut, the newly unemployed are gathering to [...]

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Are you afraid and worried that you are going to be laid off, downsized, outsourced, or fired?  Have you watched your co-workers carrying their careers in a cardboard box, silently marching through the hallways, into the elevator and out the door?  Do you feel defeated, demoralized, and depressed? Then get retired before you get fired!  [...]

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You Lie You Die Newspapers across the country are folding, going out of business, laying off their employees.  The world has changed, their business model has not, and they have no clue what to do or how to survive. Newspapers have forgotten that people buy newspapers for the news not the paper.  The book publishing [...]

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Doubling Down on Disaster Warren Buffet, America’s best known and wealthiest investor, is hoping you will help him out and buy his Bull.  With the stunning news that Berkshire Hathaway’s profits dropped 96 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, he has sent out his customary letter to company shareholders, telling them they should continue [...]

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