NAMES YOU NEED TO KNOW IN 2011: MARC FREEDMAN
This post is part of an ambitious project to crowd-source the January issue of Forbes Magazine. The goal is to find the companies, people, places and ideas that should be on people’s radar next year. You can submit your own ideas at “Names You Need to Know in 2011.” The best will run in the magazine. [...]
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SECOND ACT SUCCESS FOR ATHENA FOUNDER. ACT THREE?
DS Waters of America, a privately held company based in Atlanta, GA, is gulping down companies with an unquenchable thirst. So far this year, it has reportedly sucked up six acquisitions, including Seattle-based Athena Partners. Today, DS, one of the country’s biggest water-cooler delivery companies, which delivers to homes and offices, owning some 25 manufacturing sites [...]
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ROLLERCOASTERS TO DREAM JOBS
Hello all. This is my first post for Second Verse, and I’ve got to tell you it’s a thrill to be featured here at Forbes.com. Forbes Magazine was where I cut my teeth in financial journalism in the glory days of the 1980’s. It was in the hallowed halls of the stately Forbes headquarters, at [...]
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OPENING A BOOKSTORE? HIT THE BOOKS FIRST
Bill Skees, 56, of Glen Rock, N.J. ditched his job as an IT development director for a new career as a bookstore owner. Read Published Article (MONEY Magazine) — Bill Skees has been a bibliophile for as long as he can remember. His favorite haunt growing up in Midland, Texas, was a bookstore called Miz [...]
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A DEVASTATING INJURY SPAWNS NEW ROLE FOR TV ANCHOR AND WIFE
Read Published Article Lee Woodruff’s first book, In an Instant, is aptly named. She begins with this sentence: “There is a ride at Disney World called the Tower of Terror, and on the weekend of January 28, 2006, my four children, even the twin 5-year-olds, begged me to go on that ride over and over again.” [...]
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YOUR FINANCIAL FITNESS MAKEOVER
Four ways to get ready for a midlife career switch By Kerry Hannon | September 20, 2010 | Read Published Article at SecondAct When Cliff Stevenson chucked his 20-year career as a mortgage banker to teach social studies to high-schoolers, his salary took a freefall. To ease the hit, he and his wife sold [...]
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5 COSTS OF GOING BACK TO WORK
Consider these trade-offs before returning to work after early retirement. By Kerry Hannon | July 20, 2010 Read Published Article on SECONDACT.COM You’re ready to head back to work after a few years of chilling in early retirement. Maybe you need to for financial reasons or simply want to for personal reasons. The bottom line: [...]
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MAKING PEACE WITH MONEY PROBLEMS
Bestselling author Sarah Ban Breathnach offers 10 tips for finding your financial footing, even in precarious times. By Kerry Hannon|January 3, 2011 | Read Published Article When author Sarah Ban Breathnach decided to write a book about financial serenity two years ago, she had no idea how much she would need the book herself. Fifteen [...]
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YOUR FINANCIAL FITNESS MAKEOVER
Four ways to get ready for a midlife career switch By Kerry Hannon | Read Published Article at SecondAct When Cliff Stevenson chucked his 20-year career as a mortgage banker to teach social studies to high-schoolers, his salary took a freefall. To ease the hit, he and his wife sold their century-old Victorian home outside [...]
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FROM FOR-PROFIT TO NONPROFIT
Former corporate lawyer shares how to ditch the grind and find meaningful nonprofit work. READ ARTICLE HERE AT SECONDACT.COM By Kerry Hannon | August 11, 2010 Ever dream of ditching the ruthless money-making grind of the corporate world and digging into meaningful work at a nonprofit? Betsy Werley, who spent 26 years working first [...]
A collection of 65 essays that provides practical and entertaining advice about how to create a fulfilling retirement. The royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to cancer research.
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