Entries for October 2009

Relax. You can still retire. You just might have to redefine the word retirement a bit. Like maybe calling it "second career explorations" or "extended earning opportunities" or just plain "working."

All right, this might not be as easy as you'd hoped. The economic tsunami of the last year has greatly complicated the already tricky issue of retiring gracefully. If you're close to that age, you've got some scrambling to do—near retirees probably took the biggest beating of anyone in the stock market meltdown. But even if you've got a long way to go, now's the time to revise your plans.