Career & Life Planning

PART TWO:  HOW SERENDIPITY AND RESEARCH COME TOGETHER Continuing with PART TWO after conducting assessment in PART ONE. A good tweaking of your personal profile with a career coach can help define new opportunities emerging in the changing labor market in your current or a related field.  Or you may discover through a serendipitous encounter […]

PART ONE: TAKING INVENTORY Do you wish you’d chosen a different profession?  If you’re one of the younger boomers, ages 50 – 64, with this regret you have lots of company. According to a recent AARP survey, 46% of those younger boomers wish they had chosen a different profession compared with only 29% of those […]

OVERWHELM   O – out of control V – very, very busy E – everything is due at once R – really, the number of piles is appalling W – what is it going to take to get me out of this mess? H – how do I begin to prioritize? E – eventually I […]

It’s Not Your Parent Retirement and It never will be! So of course, it’s going to be up to you to create your post work identity. What’s that you ask?  One of the biggest challenges facing those who step out of the traditional workplace is that of finding out “who am I now?”  For the […]

This article “It’s a 401(k) World”  in the New York Times gives me  some understanding about the confusion so many are feeling today about what’s needed to succeed in the new world of work.  According to Thomas L. Friedman, “We now live in a 401 (k) world – a world of defined contributions, not defined benefits […]