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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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And in life, often your first act is devoted to childhood and education, your second to career and family and your third, following retirement, is how you choose to fill your golden years in service to the legacy you wish to leave. Novels have a beginning, middle and end. Leslie Jordan was likely familiar with third acts.

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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

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With a wife and two teenagers to clothe and feed, he was no longer willing to trust his future to this game of corporate roulette. The nation’s 73 million baby boomers (according to data estimates from the 2020 census ) are just starting to reach retirement age, yet they’re realizing that they can’t afford to retire.

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How ‘The Intern’ Explores Transference and Its Impacts on Personal Growth

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In other words, you already know this film is going to have a lot of good kitchens, beautiful clothing and real people having real, human problems. First, the obligatory plot outline: Retired executive Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) gets a gig as a “senior” intern at an up-and-coming fashion website run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway).

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The Founder of Black Girl Ventures Gets Things Done

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Her mom invested her retirement money in the company, and Bell used her tax refunds to buy her own printers. She and her mom hustled at events all over selling the clothing items and eventually made it into Essence magazine’s Holiday Gift Guide for a line of infant bodysuits.

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Modern Homesteading and the Trend Towards Greater Independence

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For example, the growing FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement is all about independence.  .  Since we track the future of work, we spend most of our time researching the growth of independent work (freelancing, independent contracting, self-employment, etc.). But there are other aspects to this trend.

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Who’s Stuck With The Bill?

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You may need to make your own pension or retirement contributions from your salary if your employer is not contributing towards that. . You can also save money on clothes if you don’t need to have such a large corporate wardrobe for your daily office appearances. For some, this can translate into a significant saving. .

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). A twist of fate post-retirement put his hard-earned savings at stake, leading him to rally to get a stretch of land for a new residential area in Delhi.

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