While it is important to have a good relationship with your manager, it’s still business. Your manager has tremendous influence over your career, your raises and bonuses, and whether you should stay or go in a layoff. You have nowhere near the same influence in your manager’s career, raises, or to stay or go in… Continue Reading
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Work longer to make up losses
How many of you have opened up your 2008 401(k) and IRA statements and seen a 30-40% drop in your assets? (Fortunately, I got out in May, 2008, so it wasn’t much of a shocker…) Too many of us have lost almost half our retirement savings — and along with it, the thought of retiring… Continue Reading
2008: End of Company Retirement Plans Begins
While many look forward to the new year, there is at least one item from 2008 that merits attention. It may be the year that the end of company retirement plan support begins. It all started with companies eliminating pensions, of course. That part is old news. The new news is that more and more… Continue Reading
