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Lots of people find Facebook a waste of time. And/or boring. Until they don’t! Like me. I got two Facebook posts/messages this week about three old friends. A married couple and a former work buddy. The couple’s posts are often interesting. Lots of … [Continue reading] about Facebook tale of three retirements
Thanks to the New Normal — a hot and highly visible European war and record inflation — lots of long-time feds have gotta be saying what-am-I-doing here? Especially those people who, after two years working from home, are now being ordered back to … [Continue reading] about Is this the year you retire or get promoted?
The Department of Veterans Affairs, faced with thousands of job vacancies and a high rate of turnover among its health care workforce, is calling on Congress to set higher pay caps for more occupations, and permanently ease onboarding … [Continue reading] about VA seeks higher pay caps for more health care workers to address high turnover rates
Every year since the dawn of time (or at least the start of the federal civil service retirement program) some retirement-age workers have tried to time their retirement so they benefit from the January pay raise for workers, and the cost of living … [Continue reading] about January pay raise or COLA: Why not both?
With a hot war in Europe, galloping worldwide inflation and growing shortages on the home front, many investors are looking for the nearly impossible: A ‘safe’ place to stash some of their retirement nest egg, with Uncle Sam, at an eye-popping … [Continue reading] about Safest place for your nest egg: With 7% return!
