How Crowdsourcing Helped Me Become a Published Author I never thought I would write a book, even though I have published books for well over a hundred authors in recent decades. This article originally appeared on RussEanes.com. I have always loved writing and decided when I left my job as Publisher and Executive Director of MennoMedia in […]
The Best Baby Boomer Career Online Communities
Baby Boomer Online Communities Online communities have exploded since the introduction of Facebook more than a dozen years ago. There are all kinds of online communities – except career-oriented sites for baby boomer careers. When I started CareerPivot.com in 2012, the world was just beginning to understand that baby boomers were not going to ride […]
A Redesigned and Refocused CareerPivot after Attack
A Redesigned and Refocused CareerPivot A new redesigned and refocused CareerPivot website has been launched. There were multiple impetuses that caused this to happen but the primary one was that the website was attacked. This was not something like a denial of service attack (DoS) which is most commonly associated with a website attack. Someone went […]
Are You a Closet Introvert? Are you Ready to Come Out?
Are you a Closet Introvert? I am a closet introvert. Several years ago I came out of the closet and admitted to myself that I could no longer act like an extrovert all of the time without paying a penalty. That penalty was damaging to my health. If you met me in person, you would […]
Evolution of Repurpose Your Career Book and Launch – Part III
Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition Creating the 3rd edition of the book has been a transformative experience. Why you may ask? The world has changed significantly in the last couple of years. The economy has greatly improved for many but not for all. Those of us in the 2nd half of life have not always […]
A Story of Faith, Patience and Grace [Guest Post]
Don Varey didn’t know his career was a lemon until he was forced to turn it into lemonade. Don was a customer of mine 20 years ago. I was a National Account Manager for MCI/Worldcom. Remember them? (Bernie Ebbers, Enron era, cowboys and charlatans galore) and Don was an IT Manager for my largest account, […]
Evolution of Repurpose Your Career Book and Launch – Part II
Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition The first book was published and a lot of lessons were learned. If you have not read the first post in this series I suggest you do that now. The plan was to update the book every 2-3 years but that did not happen. I now thought I was a […]
Dealing With Uncertainty In The 2nd Half Of Life
Dealing With Uncertainty The word uncertainty keeps on popping up in my discussions with people over the last few months. Last week I published the post The Stress of the Being an Economic Refugee Expat which was all about the uncertainty that comes up when we make bad decisions or mistakes. I was referred to […]
When Was The Last Time You Did What You Didn’t Think You Could?
When Was The Last Time You Did What You Didn’t Think You Could? Think back. Maybe you must go way, way back in that memory bank. Has it been since you were a child? For me, that’s when I did something I didn’t think I could – not for the LAST time but – for […]