Category Archives: The Midlife Experience

While thinking about this week’s column, I had occasion to mail a snapshot photo, taken of me at Mt. Lassen, to a friend. It was an actual physical picture, to be put into an actual physical envelope and delivered via the U.S. postal service. I began to write a short note of hello to includeContinue reading “Must I Change With the Times?”

You’ll recall that in my last column we learned the story of Becky, age 64, whose layoff threw her into a state of shock and heartache. Her questions to deal with immediately: how would she manage financially? Would she qualify for unemployment benefits? Should she keep working, or retire? I know you are curious aboutContinue reading “Finding a new vocation”

Last time, I shared my story of my midlife career change, which had its trials in the beginning butworked out well for me over time. The new path I was on eventually crossed that of another woman who was experiencing her own midlife career change. Mine had been voluntary; hers was thrust on her byContinue reading “Blindsided in Mid-life”

This stage of life – mid-life – puts its own unique spin on everything we do, and career change is no exception. Changing careers in your twenties or thirties is one thing; career change in your fifties or sixties? It’s a whole different ballgame. Sixties? you ask.. who’s changing careers in their sixties? A lotContinue reading “Mid-life career change”

When I was young, people were talking about the generation gap. Today, we’re talking about the technology gap. Allow me to share a little story from a few years ago. My husband and I were on a trip to visit our niece in Southern California, and at the time we did not yet have smartContinue reading “Us and them – the technology gap”