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JOBS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: FINDING WORK

LEARN FROM THE PAST
Showing us once again that some of the best ideas for our current challenging economic times may come from those who have lived through them before, 91 year old Lillian Brownstein Chodash, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, offers a still valid job hunting tip from 1938.
Finding herself still unemployed after 15 months of job hunting in the New York City area, she went door to door in a tall, Jersey City office building knocking on doors and inquiring about… More

JOBS FOR RETIREES: INVENT ONE

EMPLOYERS MIGHT INVENT A JOB FOR YOU

In my years working for Corporate America, I was never once hired for a job that was advertised.  I was presentable and educated, but non-traditional.  I never fit any corporate mold.   Headhunters wished out loud that I had some other, remotely related skill.  Employers who liked me in the interview nicely told me I wasn’t the right fit for the position; but some them came up with a different (unadvertised) position that was a better… More