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Age Factors

By CathyG

When you MUST become an entrepreneur

Today’s Wall Street Journal features a story about ex-convicts who started their own business. A classic example would be a former computer hacker who now consults on security. You can read the story here. This story isn’t new. Frank Abegnale, hero of the book and movie Catch Me If You Can, became a security consultant. […]

Filed Under: Age Factors, Entrepreneurship Tagged With: Career Advice and Opinions

By CathyG

Review of Marc Freedman’s book, The Big Shift

Freedman’s latest book purports to be about midlife transitions and challenges. Ultimately, it boils down to a lesson: Midlife is just another life transition. We can learn from other people’s stories, but only up to a point, because each of us has a unique story to live. There’s no clear pathway and we’re still looking […]

Filed Under: Age Factors Tagged With: life transition

By CathyG

Steve Jobs As Life Coach: Inspirational But Hard To Implement

Marc Freedman, author of Encore, wrote a provocative, timely post about Steve Jobs’s advice to baby boomers. Read his post here. Like so many leaders today, Steve Jobs sounds more like a life coach than seasoned business executive. Job said: “…[F]or the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked […]

Filed Under: Age Factors Tagged With: Add new tag, aging

By CathyG

Radical career change: from business executive to neurosurgeon

Exchanging a job for a passion: A neurosurgeon’s story John Seelmeyer, 9/12/2011 From Northern Nevada Business Weekly Christopher Demers sat in a hospital room in 1996, waiting while his wife, Linda, gave birth to the couple’s first son. Waiting and thinking, actually. Waiting and thinking and preparing to make a breath-taking decision, all the more […]

Filed Under: Age Factors, Career Planning, Education for Mid-Life Careers Tagged With: Career Change

By CathyG

Age Discrimination and Career Planning

Recently I asked subscribers to my career guide, “What is the biggest challenge to your career?” Over half were related to age and age discrimination. A publisher once told me, “I’d love to see someone write a book on getting a job after 60 … easily.” Yeah, right. Here is the reality. (1) Age discrimination […]

Filed Under: Age Factors Tagged With: aging, Career Planning

By CathyG

4 Successful Job Search Strategies For Mature Workers

Career Coach, Speaker and Author Ford R. Myers Offers Practical Job Search Strategies for Individuals of Any Age. Here is his press release: Haverford, PA (January 24, 2011) – Despite U.S. unemployment rates that hover around 10 percent, one segment of the population is not being hit as hard: employees age 55-plus. At its peak […]

Filed Under: Age Factors, Career Advice and Opinions Tagged With: Career Advice and Opinions, Job Search

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