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...year job as a director of information development for a software company, he decided to start a consulting practice. With a master's degree in physics, a Ph.D. in philosophy and experience in computers, marketing, advertising, college teaching and even stand-up comedy, Fried figured that he could earn extra money by opening some kind of business out of his home. "I didn't feel I had enough money socked away to retire as comfortably as I would have liked," he says. "At the same time, I needed a change and wanted to try something different...
Layoffs, early retirements, resignations prompted by disillusionment with corporate life--all are producing a host of 50-pluses who feel too young and vital to consider not working and whose stagnant or shrinking retirement savings demand that they continue to earn a salary. "Retirees want and need to keep working now more than ever before," says Rudy Lewis, president of the National Association of Home-Based Businesses in Owings Mills, Md. "But they prefer not to do it on someone else's time clock at this point in their lives...
...Upgraders. Since 2000, the two have renovated and sold one house and have begun work on three others in Nevada and California. After expenses, the business brings in from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, according to Kafka. "We wanted to supplement our income. Retirement money doesn't earn that much in the stock market today," she says. "This is a great, fulfilling way to keep busy, productive...
Almost a month ago, the four friends won the opening spot at an audition where their two-hour freestyle set impressed the judges enough to earn them the job, as well as a respectable billing on the flyer. Their collective musical experience includes years of crafting lyrics, battling freestyle in school cafeterias and working the Black Students’ Association’s Apollo Nights. Though they hadn’t originally planned on auditioning as a group, they traveled to the audition together and quickly decided that four hip-hop heads were better than...
Also impressive was their willingness to earn their cred and captivate their audience without conspicuously dropping the H-bomb. No one in the crowd, aside from the Harvard students (and there was a solid contingent there) seemed to know they were an all-Harvard act. Aside from some shout-outs to “HU” toward the end of their set, Justice League didn’t refer to Harvard, unless one can read into the lyrics of one of their songs: “Class dismissed/You aint rappin this/You aint got the aptitude/To pass the test...