By guest blogger Brian Kurth, author of Test-Drive Your Dream Job – A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love (Hachette, 2008).
Retirement used to be a universally celebrated life transition. Workers who had often worked in the same profession or even the same job for decades were freed from the daily grind and released to a life of leisure.
But the traditional retirement is now being replaced with uncertainty and unexpected challenges. Instead, Baby boomers are finding themselves unable or unwilling to stop working and are using the retirement transition to reinvent themselves and their careers.
Reinvention at any age doesn’t come easily. People of retirement age face challenges like ageism in the workplace, unsupportive spouses or friends, fear of pursuing change, and unstable finances. However, making a career transition to a job for which one has passion can often provide some of the most fulfilling experiences of a professional’s career.
In the spirit of working in a job you love at any age, please join my expert panelists and me for a free teleclass, “8 Steps To A Successful Career Transition” on Monday, May 4 at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. Please sign-up and feel free to share with your friends and family:
http://vocationvacations.com/MessagePages/may09-teleclass.php
Best!
Brian
Brian Kurth is a former “Dilbert” who worked for the phone company in Chicago. After realizing there was more to life than telecom calling plans, he founded VocationVacations (www.vocationvacations.com) in 2004. He is the author of Test-Drive Your Dream Job – A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love (Hachette, 2008). Brian is a sought-after career transition expert and speaker. He has appeared on CNBC, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, NBC’s TODAY Show and National Public Radio (NPR), and his career advice has been featured in articles in Fortune Magazine; Men’s Journal; The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, just to name a few.