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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

  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 2000. This

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• Why Going Back To Law School May Be A Bad Idea

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Lifelong Education, Middle Age, Feature

  graduates took in-house jobs in business. Those jobs are traditionally considered less prestigious and demanding than associate positions at large law firms. The percentage of older graduates going in-house is twice the rate of their younger classmates. The magazine cites several reasons why large law firms don't hire older law school

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• Why Going Back To Law School May Be A Bad Idea

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Lifelong Education, Middle Age, Feature

  graduates took in-house jobs in business. Those jobs are traditionally considered less prestigious and demanding than associate positions at large law firms. The percentage of older graduates going in-house is twice the rate of their younger classmates. The magazine cites several reasons why large law firms don't hire older law school

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• Trends to Consider when making a Midlife Career Change: Place or No Place?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career Change, Job Change, Feature

  when making a midlife career change. In the first three, which can be found by clicking on the column titles below, we looked at the Flow to Global, the Flow to Individual and Disintermediation. This column looks at the choice between Place or No Place. Until the last quarter century, one pretty much worked where one lived. In the Agricultural

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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

  leaving to go to a related job at a different established company. By contrast, after leaving a large media company in the early 90s, I've worked with a variety of start-ups in a variety of different fields. It seemed that I was always having to learn a new industry, make new contacts, and adapt to change. I actually thought that not sticking

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• Career Switchers Skew Young

  Published: August 17, 2007, 2:54 pm

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

  50+ expect to make a career change, while 66% think they'll remain with their current employer for the remainder of their working lives. That's a dramatic difference from the next-younger age group in the survey. 27% of employed adults aged 30 - 49 say it's "very likely" they'll change careers, and only 37% expect to stay with their current

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• Career Switchers Skew Young

  Published: August 17, 2007, 2:54 pm

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

  50+ expect to make a career change, while 66% think they'll remain with their current employer for the remainder of their working lives. That's a dramatic difference from the next-younger age group in the survey. 27% of employed adults aged 30 - 49 say it's "very likely" they'll change careers, and only 37% expect to stay with their current

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• Trends to Consider when making a Midlife Career Change: Friction versus Frictionless

  Published: August 20, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Feature

  making your midlife career change. Someone once said to me in the early days of Internet 1.0 that everything that exists in the physical world will be replicated on the Internet.' In this new age we now have a choice between the way of the physical world and how society has operated in the physical world and a new, cyber way. "Friction

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• Trends to Consider When Making a Midlife Career Change: 24/7 or 9 to 5

  Published: October 1, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career Change, Job Change, Feature

  when making a midlife career change. We pick up where we left off from the last two columns, "Friction or No Friction" and "Place or No Place." Both of those trends are closely tied to the ever growing connectedness of our world. The Internet, cell phones and the growth of wireless bandwidth and connectivity have allowed a number of us to

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• Midlife Career Change: A Roundup

  Published: October 1, 2007, 11:18 am

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

  cover far more than career change. One of Marci's interests is the "slash" career that many middle aged people either aspire to or have fallen into: writer/chef, lawyer/actor, mom/VP ... she's covering that and much more in both the column and the blog. Three recent stories show that second careers are possible, although not without hardship:

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• Trends to Consider When Making a Midlife Career Change: Energy

  Published: October 8, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career Change, Job Change, Feature

  are thinking about taking a job, consider the distance between the job location and where you live. Would $7.00 a gallon gasoline make you rethink your decision? To what degree is the industry you are considering entering energy dependent? In my vision of the future of this country over the next 20 years I see increased dependency upon high

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• The "Golden Rule" Career Tip

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:04 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Tips, Feature

  you are next looking for a job or perhaps wanting to do well in a new job. (Of course this principle can work when you are unemployed but it is just harder and people might jump to the assumption that you have an ulterior motive for helping them.) Helping people is remarkably easy and you shouldn't wait for people to ask you, though it is

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• The "Golden Rule" Career Tip

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:04 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Tips, Feature

  you are next looking for a job or perhaps wanting to do well in a new job. (Of course this principle can work when you are unemployed but it is just harder and people might jump to the assumption that you have an ulterior motive for helping them.) Helping people is remarkably easy and you shouldn't wait for people to ask you, though it is

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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

  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 some level. Of course, it doesn't help

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• Entrepreneurialism: Not just twenty-somethings and not just men

  Published: January 13, 2008, 12:57 pm

  Tags: Job And Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Job Loss, Retirement, Briefly Noted

  position if you lose your job after 50. If you are considering starting a business later in life, this BusinessWeek article is a good place to start. Another good resource is Marci Alboher's book on slash careers. While not aimed specifically at entrepreneurs, its "slash career" approach works well for people who want to start businesses but

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