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Your Career Should Be The Show, Not The Encore
Think of “midlife career transition,” not “half-baked career as an alternative to retirement.”
Marc Freedman’s book, Encore: Finding Work That Matters In The Second Half of Life targets baby boomers who want second careers that “matter,” i.e, that make a difference.
These days, as people live longer, many want to redefine the term “retirement.” Many want to work and many find they need additional sources of income.
As I’ve written elsewhere, I’d like to do more than redefine the term. I’d like to retire the whole concept of retirement.
Where else do we encourage people to plan an ending without making plans for their next step?
Don’t we encourage everyone to plan a career move in terms of moving to something, not from something?
When retirement gets associated with age, we get an official endorsement of ageism.
You see someone who looks sixty-ish. You simply assume they’re “retired.”
You assume they’re not doing work that comes with market levels of compensation and professional levels of demand.
You assume they have no need to be anywhere at any time (except, of course, medical appointments, which are always…
