Mid-life Career Planning Tip: Dealing With A Bad Boss

December 19, 2011

Your mid-life career takes a detour when you deal with a bad boss. Fast Company Expert Kevin Kruse wrote a gem of an article: When You Work For A Jerk: A 6-Point Plan For Dealing With A Bad Boss. Read it here. Kruse presents 6 career planning steps to take, which I will summarize in [...]

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Career Planning: When You Fall Out Of Love With Your Work (Guest Post)

December 7, 2011

We tend to think of “Career Planning” as moving to a better job in the future. But sometimes instead you need a career divorce. That’s today’s topic – and a good one from author and “dreamer in residence” Valerie Young. You started out loving your chosen career — at least in the beginning. But over [...]

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Guest Post: Who Me? Take a Sabbatical?

December 1, 2011

Today’s Guest Post comes from best-selling author Barbara Winter. When funnyman Steve Martin’s book Pure Drivel came out it enjoyed critical raves and enthusiastic sales. Although the author has long been recognized for his fertile comic mind, he told the Today Show’s Matt Lauer that the book would not have happened if he hadn’t taken [...]

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Do Two Careers Equal Half The Career Stress?

December 1, 2011

An article by Michael Bogdanow says the answer is “Yes.” In a blog post, “One Person/Two Careers: Does It Reduce Professional Stress” (posted Nov 30 2011), he points out that career “slashers” (Marci Alboher’s term) are not new. The artist Kandinsky had graduated from a Moscow law school. Bogdanow suggests several reasons why multiple careers [...]

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Career Change Mistakes – continued

November 30, 2011

In the last post we looked at 5 mistakes from an article in Monster.com. Read the original article here. Tip #6 was,”Don’t Keep Your Dissatisfaction to Yourself or Try to Make the Switch Alone.” This tip is on the right track. They make a good point: don’t talk to your boss “just yet.” I’d say, [...]

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Retirement at 65? 70? Maybe 90…

November 30, 2011

Here’s an excellent article about the need to postpone retirement in today’s economic and social climate. Many 60+ workers are finding their savings have shrunk along with their property values. The goal of “sell this house, buy a small apartment and enjoy the difference” has morphed to, “Hope we can sell this house someday.” Frankly, [...]

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Biggest career change mistakes… but are they?

November 29, 2011

One of the monster.com sites came up with these tips – 5 worst career change mistakes. Read the article here. Here’s my take on these mistakes (which are actually written up as tips and warnings, but that’s another story): They advise, “Don’t Look for a Job in Another Field Without Some Intense Introspection.” Well, I [...]

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To find a new career: Focus on what you do away from work

November 27, 2011

If you are thinking of changing careers, you’ll probably get advice along these lines. 1 – Review your history. What have you done well? What do you get praised for doing? 2 – What are you passionate about? 3 – What would you do if you won the lottery? and (my favorite): What do you [...]

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Words to Cut out Of Your Resume

November 24, 2011

Great article on cutting words from your resume here. I’ve been saying the same thing for a LONG time!

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Career Planning: Accept a lower salary to get Facebook access at work? I don’t think so…

November 6, 2011

Recently Fast Company published an article that seemed related to career planning. They asked if twenty-somethings and college students would trade off financial rewards to get more freedom to use Facebook on the job. Read the article here. The respondents insisted that Facebook access and social media were more important than money. The article said: [...]

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