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 […]
Baby Boomers, How is the Economy Working for You?
How is the Economy Working for You? This economy is humming along at full speed. It is working for everyone…right? Is this economy working for you? The opening paragraph of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life Third Edition is as follows: Finally, we’re at full employment! As of the writing of […]
Book Recommendations For Those Repurposing Their Careers
Book Recommendations from Repurpose Your Career I make a lot of book recommendations and references in the 3rd edition of Repurpose Your Career and I have been asked if I can consolidate that list. The Career Pivot website will be going a major overhaul in the 4th quarter of 2019 and the book will get […]
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, […]
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 […]
Minding Your Career Gap – How to Handle in the 2nd Half of Life
Minding Your Career Gap We have always been told that having a career gap or a period of unemployment was deadly for our career. Well, many of you who read this blog have decided to take time off to take care of a spouse or parent which means creating a career gap and leaving the […]
Could New Medicare At 50 Bill Save You Big Money?
Medicare at 50 Most of us have heard about Bernie Sanders’ proposed Medicare for All legislation. This would create a single-payer universal healthcare system here in America where everyone would have access to free Medicare with no cost-sharing or premiums. Sanders’ bill would be a sweeping change to America’s healthcare system and there are concerns about the tax […]
Late Bloomers, The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement [Book Review]
The Power of Patience Late Bloomers, The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement by Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard caught my attention after reading an April 2019 Next Avenue blog post called 3 Cheers for Late Bloomers. I think of myself as a bloomer (not sure what kind!), so I jumped on the […]