More follow-up on Post-Pink Slip Financial Planning talk: Pros & cons of bankruptcy

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 area [...]

More follow-up on Post-Pink Slip Financial Planning talk: Good WSJ article “How to Tap Crisis Cash”

Continuing with my follow-up from Thursday’s “Making the Most of Your Money: Post-Pink Slip and Beyond” presentation at the Network for Work meeting…
Another hot topic during the session was, not surprisingly, where to get cash to cover living expenses that, pre-pink slip, used to be covered by wages.  As discussed during the meeting, once you’ve looked [...]

New Pink Slip Lemonade story: Guest blogger Sue West on how she wrote her own next chapter

This story of making Pink Slip Lemonade from layoff lemons comes from guest blogger Sue West of Space4U professional organizing services.

What’s your next chapter in your life? Seems to me that’s what creating pink slip lemonade is all about. Take the best from your past, include what you love from the present, and move forward [...]

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 [...]

The tools you need to “do the math”…

“If it weren’t for the money,” you’d quit your job in a New York minute, right? But you’ve got mouths to feed, a mortgage to pay, and no shortage of other bills. So how do you get over this financial hurdle — often the last piece of the career change puzzle — and [...]