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• Boomers Discovering the Joys of Long-Haul Truck Driving

  Published: July 28, 2007, 12:27 am

  Tags: Job And Career, Baby Boomers, Career, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Job Change, Feature

  surprised us when "Midlife career change: Long-haul truck driver?" became one of LifeTwo's most constantly read posts. The traffic came mostly from people searching on some combination of "career change "and "trucking". In that article we noted that the number of service and truck drivers 55 or older had surged 19%, to about 616,000, since

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• Marci Alboher's "One Person Multiple Careers"

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Job Change, Work Life Balance, Book Review Tip

  I began to accept my odd career path and more recently to savor it. This long-over due epiphany is the gist of Marci Alboher's book "One Person Multiple Careers". In the book, Alboher shows that switching industries when you find something interesting to pursue is a career strategy that should be embraced not avoided. When it comes to

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• Joe falls into a midlife career change; the importance of passion in your career

  Published: August 21, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Briefly Noted

  of a midlife career change? Read Joe's story. Joe's background was in technology and worked for a variety of large and small tech companies in the Los Angeles area. But he had always loved cooking so after a move to the Santa Barbara area he decided to try a midlife career change. It worked out for him but not in the manner he expected.

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• Burnt Out at Work? You're "Middlescent"

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Briefly Noted

  "middlescence" hurting your career? Or your company? And what is it anyway? Last things first. "Middlescence" is the name created by "age wave" thinker Ken Dychtwald, consultant Tamara Erickson, and consultant Robert Morison to describe the bored, unmotivated 35 to 54 year olds staffing the middle tiers of many companies. To some degree

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• Want To Be Happy At Work? Find A Friend.

  Published: September 12, 2007, 2:12 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Relationships, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Briefly Noted

  work, it may not be the mid-career blues. Polling data says you just may need a friend. In "Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without," Tom Rath uses Gallup research to establish the connection between friends and happiness. The money finding: "the quality of the friendships in your life are the best predictors of daily

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• Want To Be Happy At Work? Find A Friend.

  Published: September 12, 2007, 2:12 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Relationships, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Briefly Noted

  work, it may not be the mid-career blues. Polling data says you just may need a friend. In "Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without," Tom Rath uses Gallup research to establish the connection between friends and happiness. The money finding: "the quality of the friendships in your life are the best predictors of daily

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• Interview with "One Person Multipe Careers" Marci Alboher

  Published: October 18, 2007, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Interview, Work Life Balance, Feature

  believe people with slash careers are more fulfilled than those without? Adding a slash to one's career is way to integrate and fully express the multiple passions, talents, and interests that a single career often cannot accommodate--leading to a greater sense of fullfillment. Slash careerists are less likely to be bored or burn out because

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• Shame and Midlife Change

  Published: November 6, 2007, 3:52 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Job And Career, Relationships, Living Life To The Fullest, Midlife Observed, Baby Boomers, Before I Die, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Depression, Divorce, Happiness, Job Change, Job Loss, Mid Life Crisis, Opinion

  Most of us like to think that a mutually agreed upon divorce or simple job lay off is not shameful. But something in our culture and deep within our own psyche begs to differ. I found my own divorce to feel quite shameful. What I say now is that any divorce, no matter how mutally desired, traumatizes the people involved and feels like a failure on

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• Working from home works, says study; Lowered stress and higher morale benefit all parties

  Published: November 27, 2007, 10:42 am

  Tags: Job And Career, Career, Career Satisfaction, Research, Work Life Balance, Feature

  they did not believe their careers were likely to suffer from telecommuting. Why does this matter? Job satisfaction is important to everyone but as you age it tends to become even more important. Being around the house even just one more day a week gives one a chance to see and interact with family members in a way that is simply not

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• How satisfied are you with your salary?

  Published: December 4, 2007, 11:33 am

  Tags: Job And Career, Career, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Personal Finance, Research, Briefly Noted

  Traditional economic theory tells us that the larger the reward for a particular action the greater your motivation. In other words you judge the value of the monetary rewards of your workplace based 100% on the absolute size of what you get. But observations have shown that the relative amount of one's reward is as important if not more important

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• Around 50, some boomers rediscover their radical roots

  Published: January 9, 2008, 8:49 pm

  Tags: Midlife Observed, Baby Boomers, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Book Review Or Tip

  boomers age they rethink careers with the goal to secure meaningful work that is work that has a sense of purpose. Freedman has numerous examples of people starting entirely new work lives, often at charities or nonprofits. Here's our take: the values never went away but had been pushed behind a wall of personal responsibilities, career

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• How hard should you be trying to be happier?

  Published: January 11, 2008, 6:22 pm

  Tags: Living Life To The Fullest, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Positive Psychology, Briefly Noted

  be more successful in their careers than the Blissful. They also brought home much fatter paychecks. Indeed, in one substudy, college freshmen with the most cheerful dispositions ended up 19 years later, at the age of 37, making about $8,000 less than their drearier counterparts. The researchers could be right and striving for increased

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• Listen to "The Three Signs of a Miserable Job"

  Published: January 10, 2008, 1:31 am

  Tags: Job And Career, Career Satisfaction, Briefly Noted, Podcast Review Or Tip

  HBR's Ideacast podcast series has an interview with Patrick Lencioni, author of "Three Signs of a Miserable Job." In it he explains who's to blame for on-the-job misery -- it's not you, and it's not the company ... THe podcast is at iTunes here. You can also download the podcast at this page -- it links to the mp3 file here.

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• What are the greatest regrets in your life?

  Published: January 16, 2008, 9:42 pm

  Tags: Living Life To The Fullest, Baby Boomers, Before I Die, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Midlife Crisis Man Male, Research, Briefly Noted

  frequency: education (32%), career (22%), romance (15%), parenting (10%) and self (5.47%) were the top five. For the most part, people agree. They would rather look back and regret the things they did than the things they didn't do. Studies have proven that regrets of inaction persist much longer than regrets of action. Roese and Summerville

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• Have I Wasted Twenty Years as a Homemaker?

  Published: January 20, 2008, 1:55 pm

  Tags: Job And Career, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Children, Life Plan, Midlife Crisis Woman Female, Women, Discussion

  Other women who've been working since they were twenty will now have retirement income. Not me. I stayed home. I got the joy of watching every step of my children's infancy and childhood. Now I'm stuck with just me. As I make my way out into the sunshine, I sure would love to hear what other people have to say about being "just a homemaker" and

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