Your life insurance – Can you take it with you? “Post-Pink Slip” Lesson #2

In my last post, I mentioned that I took several important points away from my session with Manchester, NH-based Dynamic Networking Group.  Lesson #2 in this series is a short and sweet one: If the life insurance provided by your employer is crucial to your family’s financial well-being, check now — before your job is at risk [...]

Pre- and post-pink slip financial tips: excellent articles from Jonathan Pond

These excellent articles from veteran personal finance guru Jonathan Pond offer very targeted pink slip financial planning tips to those at different stages in the process:

Employed-but-worried: Are You Financially Prepared for a Layoff?
Just laid off: Laid Off or Displaced? Get Help

Pink-slipped in your prime? AARP offers free webinar (6/11 @ 2 PM EDT), much more

Age 45+?? Sign up for this free AARP webinar, Navigating Your Way Through Job Loss, which addresses the financial, health, job search, and emotional implications of mid-career job loss. It will be held tomorrow, Thursday, June 11, from 2 – 3 PM EDT.
Can’t make the webinar? The AARP Web site offers a myriad of other [...]

Employed-but-worried? Squeeze every last drop out of employee benefits

There was good news on the national job front last week, relatively speaking, with both new claims and total jobless slightly down for the first time in months. Still, what passes for good news these days — the loss of “only” 345,000 jobs in May — remains sufficient justification to take precautions with your personal [...]

Recipe for Pink Slip Lemonade: excellent, up-to-the-minute article on layoff survival

Wow!  If you are a layoff victim or likely candidate, you owe it to yourself to click on this link.  While you might think Good Housekeeping magazine a source more likely to publish a recipe for Pink Slip Lemonade (the drink) than for Pink Slip Lemonade (the layoff financial recovery strategy), author Kate Ashford has [...]

Making Pink Slip Lemonade: First, add water

It’s sunny, dry, and brutally hot.  The perfect day for Pink Slip Lemonade, you might argue, if you were imagining yourself poolside at an all-inclusive resort in Palm Springs, or in your own backyard in the dog days of August, surrounded by friends and family.  But what if instead you found yourself, as Man vs. [...]

Happy Birthday, Escape from Corporate America! Career change guide details options

Today marks the one year anniversary of the book launch party for  Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams, by career expert and corporate escapee Pamela Skillings.  As a contributor of several tips and tools included in the “Let’s Get Practical” chapter, I couldn’t resist making the trek down to NYC [...]

My career change story: From layoff lemons to Pink Slip Lemonade – Part I

It’s been nearly a decade, but the image remains vivid. Blue carpet-covered cube farm walls in a 100-year-old converted textile mill building. Logo wear, commemorative paperweights, and other artifacts of more carefree times scattered about. The sound of no work being done as we all hovered around the water cooler with bated breath… 
Being on the receiving end [...]