Title: The best home businesses for people 50+
First published: 2004
Description: For the fastest-growing segment of our population, here is a comprehensive guide to starting and running a home-based business in midlife and retirement.A baby boomer turns fifty every seven seconds, creating what will soon be the largest and most influential senior generation in history. These dynamic seniors have both a desire and a need to continue their working lives past the age when their parents retired.Boomers have been the primary buyers of more than one million self-employment guides by Paul and Sarah Edwards-and they now have the perfect handbook to take them into the second half of life.The Best Home Businesses for People 50+ features seventy comprehensive profiles that show how to select, start, run, and build a home-based business suited to the needs, talents, and ideals of the over-fifty generation. Each business listing-for careers ranging in diversity from Makeup Artist to Tax Preparer to Information Broker-addresses the concerns of boomers and seniors, including:- Businesses that people 50+ can continue working in for 10-15 years.- Businesses that supplement your retirement income.- Businesses adaptable to a wide variety of locations.- Businesses with flexible hours to allow for family, travel, and other priorities.- Businesses suited to a broad range of health and wellness needs.Profiles of successful business owners and a treasury of online and easy-to-access resources round out The Best Home Businesses for People 50+ to create an indispensable resource for this new generation of career-oriented seniors.
Subjects: Home-based businesses, Management, Employment, Self-employed, Older people, Nonfiction, Self-Improvement, Business, Careers, Older people, employment
Places: United States
LC classification: HD2333 .E338 2004