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Career counselor and job-loss recovery coach, Dr. Sally Gelardin offers advice.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “All would live long, but none would be old.” When I asked career expert Helen Harkness what this quote means, she said, "Focus on functional age for your future direction. Target chronological calendars and clocks." To continue the learning experiences at last month's Poetics of Aging Conference in San Francisco (and to share with those who could not attend), I am presenting a series of interviews in December and January on "Working Quinquagenarians, Sexagenarians, Septuagenarians, Octogenarians, and Nonagenarians." Representatives of each post-50 generation …
How many times have you made a New Year's resolution, only to give up midstream? No need to feel bad about that, maybe it wasn't the best thing for you to do anyway. And maybe you learned something from however far you went with your resolution. In the 21st Century, things are changing fast. Between technological advances, natural and man-made catastrophes, environmental influences, chance happenings, a challenging job market, and new interests over time, our work and home lives are complex, unpredictable, and in continual flux. Let's break open the concept of a New Year's resolution to …
The end. This phrase keeps coming up recently. "The End" warns the back of a designer t-shirt (Isabel de Pedro's fall 2010 collection) and jumps out of this month's cover of Scientific American. Is doomsday really approaching? What is the worst that can happen and is it really the end? Does the end mean meeting the grim reaper or the end of something less fatal, such as the end of summer, a short-term or stressful job, borrowing the family car, or a warm weather romance? Here are five lessons I learned from endings: Whatever ended deserves to be acknowledged. My colleague Eugene Muscat, …
Are you having a hard time making ends meet? If so, you might want to examine how you are spending your time. If you are a boomer, like most of Marin County residents, you are spending less time than you did three years ago -- before the current economic crisis -- volunteering, reading newspapers, reading for pleasure, listening to the radio, being with spouse, and watching TV. What you're doing more of is spending time on your computer. If you are a young, outgoing boomer (45- to 54-years-old), according to Lori Bitter, you are most likely social networking with a variety of groups in your …
