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F50 Issue #20: Five Questions to Reinvent Your Career After 50

F50 Issue #20: April 16, 2024 Working Well Beyond Retirement: Turning Your Vocation into a Second-Act Career If you retired tomorrow, would you miss your job? And if you’ve already retired, do you wish you could keep working? Over the past few months, we’ve shared stories from people over 50 who are enjoying fulfilling careers in their chosen field. Actors Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford are still going strong. Retired TV executive Ron Petrescue found a new freelance career in front of the...

11 days ago • 5 min read

F50 Issue #19: April 2, 2024 New Adventures in Unretirement: Five Lessons from Carl Fredricksen Last week, we watched our oldest daughter set off on a new adventure as we celebrated her marriage. A beautiful chapter of her life has begun, with many pages waiting to be written. And as we think about love and adventure, we can’t help thinking about one of our favorite movies of all time — “Up”! The main character, Carl Fredricksen, also enjoyed a beautiful love story, but he’s at a different...

25 days ago • 5 min read

F50 Issue #18: March 19, 2024 Harnessing the Power of Peak 65: Five Ways to Combat Ageism Move over Freedom 55 — it’s time to make way for Peak 65! Many of you may remember the phrase “Freedom 55.” It was an advertising slogan for the London Life Insurance company in the 1980s, and it popularized the notion of retiring at the age of 55. In one of its TV commercials, a young man travels through time and jogs beside an older version of himself on a tropical beach. As the two start chatting, the...

about 1 month ago • 5 min read
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F50 Issue #17: March 5, 2024 It’s Never Too Late: Chase Your Dreams at Any Age Imagine you’re a child with a dream. You want to write books when you grow up. This dream fills your thoughts as you eat breakfast in the morning. It inspires games of make-believe. You wonder how long you have to wait until you can live out this vision. How about 60 years? That’s how long Bonnie Garmus had to wait. According to an interview on CBS Sunday Morning, she’d wanted to be a novelist since she was five...

about 2 months ago • 5 min read

F50 Issue #16: February 20, 2023 Flextirement: How to Embrace a Flexible, Fulfilling Future Business cards — those tiny pieces of cardstock that condense a lifetime of experience and skills into a few powerful words. Many of us have (or have had) a Rolodex. As you spin it around, you see who you value as colleagues, and you see your own history. Like a movie reel, the cards rotate. And your career unfolds, evolving as your roles change. Ron Petrescue has a collection of business cards, many...

2 months ago • 5 min read

F50 Issue #15: February 6, 2023 Quiet Returning: How to Make a Quiet Comeback as a Freelancer “I quit!” Many of us were introduced to this phrase while watching The Flintstones cartoon at lunchtime. After rushing home from school, we watched spellbound while eating grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. On a small black and white or color TV, the scene opened with a dramatic burst of music and a view of Fred Flintstone working at the gravel pit. Suddenly, he checks his watch and realizes...

3 months ago • 5 min read

F50 Issue #14: January 23, 2023 Rise of the Digital Nomad: Making the Most of Your Remote Freelance Career Craig enjoying a Cappuccino in Medellin, Colombia Imagine sitting near the window in a cozy cafe, sunlight streaming across the table. In front of you sits a creamy cappuccino, a decadent pastry drizzled with chocolate, and your laptop. As you sip the delicious Colombian coffee, you think about all the snow you should be shoveling at home. Except you can’t, because you aren’t there....

3 months ago • 5 min read

F50 Issue #13: January 2, 2024 Greeting the New Year with Authenticity: Five Lessons from The Crown DECREPIT — the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines this word as “wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age.” And it’s the word Queen Elizabeth uses to describe herself in the series finale of The Crown on Netflix. Now, if you’re familiar with Elizabeth II and her 70-year reign, “decrepit” might not be the first word that comes to mind when you think of her. But in this...

4 months ago • 5 min read

F50 Issue #12: December 19, 2023 The 12 Days of Freelancing “On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree…” With the holiday season upon us, no doubt many of you have heard this tune on the radio, in the mall, or in your own collection of music. Do you have a favorite version you enjoy listening to? Maybe it’s Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with their classic rendition from 1949. Maybe it’s Perry Como with his unique variation from 1953. Maybe it’s...

4 months ago • 6 min read

F50 Issue #11: December 5, 2023 Chasing Your Dreams: Key Lessons from the Movie, Nyad The moon shines down on a solitary swimmer. On one side, a faithful kayaker keeps a red spotlight focused on her. On the other side, the tired crew of a small boat keep watch, making sure she stays safe in shark-infested waters. This is a scene from the movie Nyad, based on Diana Nyad’s autobiography titled Find a Way: The Inspiring Story of One Woman's Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream. At the age of 60, Nyad...

5 months ago • 5 min read
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