Traditional retirement seems passé these days. Especially to baby boomers still trying to shore up their nest egg. Still, a recent survey suggests a good majority of them might be choosing the work they do – more with their hearts – instead of their financial prowess. There’s a new class of boomers who are rewiring their work life in order to give back while making a buck. The survey was done by Boomer tracker, Civic Ventures and the MetLife Foundation.
The doom and gloom of another day of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bashing is enough to make anyone whose got a stake in the company or a mortage on edge – a bit jittery.
If high gas prices weren’t enough there’s a new stress in town. How to commute around the high gas prices. While in one of the many newsrooms I work in this morning, a phone call came in:
Whether it’s a public move to allay fears of disaster after a 66% stock plunge, or a “hey we’re on your side and we appreciate you” gesture toward employees, I think Lehman’s fearless approach in awarding midyear stock bonuses is a strategy worth talking about.
The heartbreaking video of a psychiatric patient dying on the floor at a Brooklyn, New York hospital has echoed across the internet in the last 24 hours. The video shows the patient collapsing on the floor. As she collapses she is ignored. Hospital workers and security did nothing as she was lying there and eventually died.
