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This insightful career change story comes from guest blogger and one-time client of mine, Michael Donahoe, CFP®, now a financial planner himself, and principal with On Course Financial Group, LLC, of Portland, ME. I just passed the four year anniversary of when I left corporate America and headed out on my own. Since making the [...]
In her “pink slip lemonade” story, guest blogger Pamme Boutselis mentioned how her experience as a volunteer worked in conjunction with paid work experience to enable her to make the shift to her new career. Pamme’s experience echoes my own. At age 30, as part of my first career transition (from engineering to marketing, post-MBA), [...]
Many of those unlucky enough to be laid off in recent months also happen to be the parents of college age kids with big tuition bills looming. The ultimate double whammy! If you’re in this predicament, you’re no doubt wondering: “What are my options??” Well, if you attended my presentation to the Network for Work group on June [...]
Everywhere I turn, I keep stumbling across the concept “We’re all self-employed now.” Maybe this is the result of that phenomenon whereby once you buy, say, a Honda CRV or a Litespeed bike, you notice that everyone on the road seems to have one. Or maybe not. In any case, I recently heard it used in the context [...]
This story of making Pink Slip Lemonade from layoff lemons comes from guest blogger Pamme Boutselis of TrackAhead.com, an education and career focused social network launching later this summer. The phone call came mid-morning on my first day back from vacation in early August ‘08. I had just inked the contract for my daughter’s [...]
After what seemed like an incredibly long wait, lemonade weather — my favorite — has finally arrived in the Northeast. So I hope you will indulge me for a few final posts on last month’s featured Pink Slip Lemonade theme. But first… Many thanks to the guest bloggers who wrote about their post-pink slip career changes, including professional [...]
Well, all good things must come to an end, and so it is with Pink Slip Lemonade month, which has already borrowed a few days from July. To commemorate this last day, I thought I’d tackle the granddaddy of all, the most frequently asked post-pink slip question: whether or not to roll over your 401k. My [...]
Continuing with still more follow-up from Thursday’s “Making the Most of Your Money: Post-Pink Slip and Beyond” presentation at the Network for Work meeting… Look familiar?? Today’s gloomy-yet-again weather presents the perfect backdrop for another question I was asked after the talk: “What are the pros and cons of bankruptcy?” While this is not an [...]
