Category: Career

Does Your Life-planning Go Beyond the Actuarial Tables?  It should.

In my multiple roles as recruiter, retirement coach, and career transition specialist, I have the good fortune to talk with some amazing, talented and successful people who have entered into their “third age” of life.  That’s the new extended and unchartered territory between the end of mid-career jobs and parenting duties and the beginning of… Continue reading Does Your Life-planning Go Beyond the Actuarial Tables?  It should.

Retirement Planning Done Well.

Dola Handley and Cary Smith in Munich, Germany Imagine with me that you are working 60 hour weeks, making life-and-death decisions virtually every day, herding cats that are your staff, fighting with superiors for adequate resources, putting up with arrogant personalities, being on call-standby many weekends and operating on less than adequate sleep. Now imagine… Continue reading Retirement Planning Done Well.

Retired? You May Be About to Waste the Most Productive, Fulfilling Time of Your Life?

Photo by Cristofer Jeschke on Unsplash Your financial planner just called you to a special meeting in his office to deliver some news.  It’s all good. You’ve hit your investment goals and are financially prepared to retire! You started  a diligent, leveraged savings plan at 28 and now, 35 years later and with his help… Continue reading Retired? You May Be About to Waste the Most Productive, Fulfilling Time of Your Life?

Retirement and the “No-Work” Danger Zone

Photo by Raúl Nájera on Unsplash Here’s a theory to ponder:  retirement can cause brain-rot! Brain rot?  Never heard of it?  Well, I hadn’t either – I kinda just made it up. I just wanted to get your attention. But the thought came to me after I stumbled across a YouTube featuring spiritual elder Rabbi Zalman Schachter  talking… Continue reading Retirement and the “No-Work” Danger Zone

The Thief Called “65”

I had phone conversations this past week with two middle-aged (50-ish) divorced professional women that had eerily similar undertones having to do with a critical life inflection point. These were two talented women who were facing similar challenges in re-entering the job market after an unexpected change in their professional employment status. It wasn’t surprising… Continue reading The Thief Called “65”