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Senior Volunteer Programs: Make A Change

Being a volunteer will give you a sense of fulfillment that you are able to help other people, and the feeling of accomplishment that you are spending your time well, as you give back to your community. This can improve your total overall health, and will give you a happier disposition.

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Senior Employment Advice: How to Enjoy Your Retirement

Age is just a number and it does not define who you are, nor should it prevent you from continuously learning new things and enhancing the skills that you have. By being a senior, you should leverage on your experience and knowledge. If you wish to join the workforce as a senior employee, you just have to prepare yourself to take on new challenges and meet new and younger people.

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Tips to Supplement Your Retirement Finances

After decades of hard work and toiling for the future, it is in your retirement years that will be able to truly enjoy the fruits of your labor. However with the rising costs of utilities, groceries, medical services and prescription medication, your retirement finances from your social security pension and other retirement investments may not be sufficient in providing a comfortable and worry-free lifestyle.

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Job Market on the Rise for Senior Employees in 2011

Good news for job seekers all around – the job recession looks to be finally rising from the depths of carnage and wreckage it left us in back in 2008 and is staring at the sun with purpose and promise of a greater job market future.

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Should You Sue for Age Bias?

SmartMoney.com

A 20-something calls you “old man.” Or, your boss only asks the under-30 set for input when the meeting turns to Twitter. Or maybe you’ve been passed over for a promotion in favor of a younger worker, or let go — you suspect — because of your age.

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Working During Retirement May Be ‘The New Normal’

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A study of wealthy individuals around the world conducted by Barclays pokes holes in the notion that an individual should stop working at a pre-defined age, as it is more of an illusion than a reality.

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How to Find a Job in Retirement

SmartMoney.com

Until recently, retirement was an either-or proposition. Either you retired, or you worked. Now an increasing number of Baby Boomers and seniors find themselves somewhere in between, either returning to work after a few years of full retirement, or working part-time, in the oxymoronic stage known as a “working retirement.”

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The Pros and Cons of Self-Employed Retirement

With a self-employed retirement, you can find the perfect balance between enjoying a peaceful retirement, and a stimulating retirement where your new, day-to-day employment keeps you active and gives you added income. Self-employment is popular in certain areas and career paths. Most people who start a self employed retirement have a background in the field [...]

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The Senior Employment Community is Growing

Working after retirement is a topic that comes up in everyone’s retirement. Will it be too stressful? Do you need the money? Will it keep you occupied? How will it affect your social life? These questions can only be answered by you, but the benefits of being a senior employee do seem to outweigh the [...]

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