Plan Ahead Before Joining The 'Great Resignation'

It’s been called the “Great Resignation” – the large number of Americans voluntarily leaving their jobs.

If you plan to be part of it (ideally with another source of employment lined up), you’ll need to make the financial moves necessary to keep mak- ing progress toward your long-term goals.

Here’s some background: After a year in which the pandemic caused so many people to lose their jobs, the economy is opening back up, but the “quit rate” – the number of jobs people have voluntarily left – has been breaking records. Some economists say this high quit rate is because people are confident of...