Last week I sat in a busy American Red Cross office, a small tablet in hand, struggling to read the tiny type on a lengthy, required questionnaire before donating blood. Within minutes, an intake nurse called my name and gestured for me to …
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Experienced Software Marketer Eyes Career Pivot
Each week, Startup Decoder shares the story of a mid- or late-career employee or founder working in tech. Please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your current work. My name is Alisa and I’m 52. I currently work for a small …
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Encore Fellow: A Path from Tech to Nonprofit
Legacy creation. Values alignment. Giving back. These rise in importance for workers later in their careers, often after spending decades deferring them. By the time we hit our 50s and 60s (and sometimes beyond), most of us still want to be …
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Is Your Name Age-Signaling? Should You Change It?
Let’s start by answering the second question. ABSOLUTELY NOT! With that out of the way, we can move to the first question and the age-signaling workplace biases around names. I began to think about this as I was mulling over the slang …
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