When I ditched my corporate life to be a freelance writer (and then a stay-at-home mom/homeschooler), I expected some trade-offs. Looking back, the pros outweighed the cons by far. While I do miss the steady paycheck (admittedly, that’s a big one), I don’t miss much else from my days as a corporate worker bee. 5 …
To paraphrase the Cheshire Cat, “If you don’t know where you are going any path will do.” Or this quote from Yogi Berra, “If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.” That’s how many of us women got to our current career. At midlife, that’s no longer enough. It’s …
Forget your 2014 retirement age. Let’s talk about your 2014 encore career age–and it’s now. Never heard of an encore career this New Year? That’s about to change. In fact, as Marci Alboher–a former lawyer and reporter who is fittingly now the vice president of Encore.org–writes in The Encore Career Handbook, “Research shows that 9 …
