Marc Miller, Author at Career Pivot

Technologies That Makes My Business Location Independent

April 29, 2019 by Marc Miller 4 Comments

Making My Business Location Independent Over the last few years, I have been exploring technologies that would allow me to make my business location independent. As a solo-entrepreneur, I want to work from where I want to work and when I want to work. My wife and I have relocated to Ajijic, Mexico in the […]

Patti Temple Rocks Addresses Workplace Ageism [Podcast]

April 23, 2019 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

Episode #124 – Marc Miller Interviews Patti Temple Rocks, author of I’m Not Done: It’s Time to Talk About Ageism in the Workplace. Description: For over four decades, Patti Temple Rocks has held senior leadership positions in three distinct communication sectors: PR, advertising, and corporate/client side. She is an inspirational leader, innovative thinker, problem-solver, growth […]

Top 5 Career Books that have Nothing to do with Careers [Updated]

April 22, 2019 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

Top 5 Career Books You may wonder which books I recommend to my clients or what I have been reading. It may surprise you that none of the books I am going to recommend from my list are conventional career books. Let’s get started. Note this post was originally published in October of 2015. It […]

Should I Take a Survival Job and Why? [Updated]

April 15, 2019 by Marc Miller 6 Comments

Survival Job Are you considering taking a survival job? Have you been out of work for over six months? Have your unemployment benefits run out? Are you running out of money to pay the mortgage, or are you going to raid your 401(k) for living expenses? Many are driven to this decision by monetary issues […]

How to Remain Valuable in a Volatile Market [Guest Post]

April 8, 2019 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

The job market today is incredibly volatile. People are staying with the same company for shorter periods of time (partially due to many companies’ lack of loyalty to their employees). Well educated employees are coming from overseas, companies are outsourcing certain business functions, and many companies employ the tactic of laying off tenured employees in […]

Ageism and What to Do About It – Part III

April 1, 2019 by Marc Miller 3 Comments

Ageism – Part III This is the third in the series on ageism. The 1st post was Ageism – What It Is, How to Identify It and What to Do About It, the 2nd was How To Identify Ageism In The Workplace – Ageism Series Part II, and in this post, I want to identify […]

How to Move Abroad and Take Your Job With You – Banking

March 25, 2019 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

How to Move Abroad – Banking Now that we have permanently moved to Mexico, banking has become a necessity of life. We need money to live on, and up until now, all of the money resides in institutions in the U.S. I have been chronicling our experiences in this blog and on the Repurpose Your Career […]

How Careers in the 2nd Half of Life are Different [Updated]

March 11, 2019 by Marc Miller 4 Comments

Careers in the 2nd Half of Life I have been thinking about how careers in the 2nd half of life are different. In fact, I claim that the idea of a career in the 2nd half of life is a relatively new concept. My father was forced into retirement at the age of 59 in […]

How To Identify Ageism In The Workplace – Ageism Series Part II

February 18, 2019 by Marc Miller 4 Comments

Ageism In The Workplace Can you identify when ageism in the workplace occurs? Very often ageism is very subtle or veiled in language that on first blush is acceptable but after some reflection, you might say “they said I was too old”. In the first post in this series, I discussed how to define ageism […]

Ageism – What It Is, How to Identify It and What to Do About It

February 4, 2019 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

Ageism – Discrimination Against our Future Selves Ageism is a type of discrimination that involves prejudice against people based on their age. The problem is we all will get old, so why would we discriminate against people who are what we will become? Ashton Applewhite says in her TED talk Lets end ageism: Aging is not a problem […]

Technologies That Makes My Business Location Independent

Patti Temple Rocks Addresses Workplace Ageism [Podcast]

Top 5 Career Books that have Nothing to do with Careers [Updated]

Should I Take a Survival Job and Why? [Updated]

How to Remain Valuable in a Volatile Market [Guest Post]

Ageism and What to Do About It – Part III

How to Move Abroad and Take Your Job With You – Banking

How Careers in the 2nd Half of Life are Different [Updated]

How To Identify Ageism In The Workplace – Ageism Series Part II

Ageism – What It Is, How to Identify It and What to Do About It

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