Where Age Is No Barrier
Meet my mind. It’s not always as peaceful as I’d like, particularly when I’ve been wrestling with technology. In fact, some demons appear with harsh words. They say, “A digital native would find this easy.” Or, “This is a young person’s …
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I suspect most fully-employed people over 50 have a dark thought looming in the back of their minds: If I were to lose this job, finding another at my age would be challenging. Certain events—a friend being laid off, an industry change, a …
One of my goals this year is to read less but retain more from that reading. I know reading less sounds like an unadmirable goal. But I consume so much that I experience diminishing returns. So while I haven’t done particularly well on …
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Eavesdrop on a conversation between over-50 job seekers and one subject is guaranteed to come up: the common advice to omit work history older than 10-15 years on the LinkedIn profile. For some, this is an easy and obvious choice. For …
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