Work at Home Business Ideas

reveries.com:
Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow has a new book that outlines the demographic differences between young adults today and his own generation. His own generation would be the baby boomers, and Dr. Wuthnow says he was inspired to write “After the Baby Boomers” by his own children, who are in their 20s and 30s.
The key differences […]

The Wall Street Journal:
Joseph Coughlin describes his work as “trying to get people to ‘age cool.’ ” More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older adults’ lives.
And he can’t do it quickly […]

The Brunswick News:
Twenty years ago, a dog was a dog and a cat was, well, just a cat.
Now, they’re much more than that, and businesses that cater to pets and their owners are springing up everywhere, including here in Brunswick and the Golden Isles.
More and more owners are treating their pets like children, a new […]

Do you find yourself forgetting little tidbits of information? Is cousin Sara’s name spelled with or without the “h” at the end? Is her birthday on the 11th or the 12th? What did that mechanic tell me about rotating my tires? Perhaps your schedule is so complicated that a day planner […]

BusinessWeek:
As millions of people in their 50s and 60s exit the corporate world, many will search for “encore careers” in the public and nonprofit sectors. This could result in the biggest transformation in the U.S. workforce since women began pouring into it some 30 years ago, says Marc Freedman, author of Encore: Finding Work That […]

Kiplinger:
It would seem serendipitous: Just as a prolonged labor crunch is anticipated, some of the most experienced and reliable workers around — those near retirement age — are planning to make themselves available. But companies that just assume their older workers are going to stay put indefinitely could be making a big mistake.
Older people are […]

Springwise:
The pharaohs built pyramids to help protect their mummified remains for millennia. But these days an opposite trend has taken hold: low-impact burials that enable a body to naturally revert back to the soil as quickly as possible.
In the UK, for example, well over 100 special cemeteries permit the burial of the deceased in biodegradable […]

Inc.:
Jeff and Kelly Lantz, a Lake St. Louis couple have created an online community for those over 50, 55 Alive!
At that age, people are often retiring or becoming empty nesters.
They’re also using the Web. But because of the stereotype that older people don’t even know how to turn on computers, most websites don’t try to […]

Fortune Small Business Magazine:
Which Americans are leading the surge in entrepreneurship? Aging boomers.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the ranks of the self-employed aged 55 to 65 rose 33 percent in 2006; the number of self-employed 25- to 35-year-olds fell 2 percent.
In a quarterly survey by outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas of […]

Job Journal:
Check out the new book, “Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death”, by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen.
The book is filled with characters like Lou Stellato, a sort of futurist among funeral directors, who declares, “Funeral service as we know it is over.”
Cullen’s book explains the issues of the shifting funeral […]