All the Cool Girls Get Fired
Just in time for a painful job market to get more painful, Sotheby’s Media head O’Neill and former InStyle editor-in-chief Brown reframe firings, layoffs, and restructurings as systemic inevitabilities rather than personal failings. They urge readers not to take the loss as a personal rejection, and to focus instead on developing healthy coping mechanisms and seizing the opportunity to pivot or reinvent themselves.
The Beautifully Organized Estate Planner
After books addressing home and work, the latest volume in professional organizer Boyd’s Beautifully Organized series helps individuals get their personal affairs in order for the benefit of
caregiving family or heirs. The highly designed hardcover, with foil accents and an interior pocket, provides space for cataloging medical histories, account passwords, important contacts, and more, as well as checklists for end-of-life care and funeral arrangements, so that caretakers may carry out one’s wishes without having to act as detectives or forensic accountants during difficult times.
Having It All
“Because of a few biological realities and a lot of imbalanced cultural and institutional norms, men simply do not face the same level of complexity and potential repercussions when making major life decisions,” according to this book by Low, an economist who teaches the popular Economics of Diversity and Discrimination course at Wharton. She lays bare the cold numbers underlying the inadequacy of women’s individualized attempts to have it all and offers a framework of advice for, she writes, “getting the most happiness and satisfaction from your life and career in a world full
of constraints.”
My Mother’s Money
Caring for an elderly parent, already an emotionally draining role, is even more overwhelming when paired with the need to manage long-term care funding, medical and financial powers of attorney, and Kafkaesque insurance policy restrictions. Pinsker, a certified financial planner, draws on her own experience caring for her aging mother to offer advice on navigating these and other logistical quandaries of elder care and end-of-life planning.
Retirement Bites
Yahoo Finance columnists Hannon and Herron aim their advice at the 64 million members of Gen X, speaking to a cohort for whom rising interest rates, the decline of pensions, multiple financial crises, and other impediments to a secure and comfortable retirement are top of mind. It’s not too late, the authors say, even for those barely a decade from retirement; saving and investing wisely in these last years of a career can aid a successful transition out of it.
Correction: This article has been edited to correct My Mother's Money author Beth Pinsker's name.
