SemiretirementYourWay

 It used to be that you were "done" in the workplace when you were heading toward 65. Now the perception of "old" kicks in at age 50. You are likely to be forced out. If you survive and hold on to your job promotions and raises dry up. That's the new usual.  But you can dodge those bullets with 5 powerhouse strategies on how to not be branded as old. I introduce them in this article in "O'Dwyer's Public Relations. Low on hope about finding, holding, or moving on to better work?  Getting that back is the first step. Then you and I, as your career coach, move on to diagnosing what's in the way, trying out the solutions and creating the communications you need. Free consultation. No pressure. After that, fees custom-made for your budget. Please contact for an appointment Jane Genova (text/phone 203-468-8579, janegenova374@gmail.com). 

This is the new influence: Piling on massive followers on professional and social networks. And those followers have to be busy bees liking, commenting, reposting and linking to your postings on other networks. I explain this phenomenon on Substack . Low on hope about finding, holding, or moving on to better work?  Getting that back is the first step. Then you and I, as your career coach, move on to diagnosing what's in the way, trying out the solutions and creating the communications you need. Free consultation. No pressure. After that, fees custom-made for your budget. Please contact for an appointment Jane Genova (text/phone 203-468-8579, janegenova374@gmail.com). 

44,565.07 USD ▲  +408.34 (+0.92%) today January 23, 4:53 PM EST   ·   Market Closed   Nice action on the Dow. Our nest eggs are doing well. We are the blessed Boomers. Not at all blessed are the Boomers with little or no financial reserve who are out there hustling for income from working - at whatever they can grab. Right now there hasn't been a lot to grab, not unless you're open to learning new skills. Yes, that even pertains to gigs.  As a career coach specializing in guiding seniors who are semiretired I have been pushing circling back to the community college and legit profit-based training centers for certifications and licensing.  A recent client, in his early 60s, kicked off a new way of making ends meet by getting his commercial license. Right now he's working locally. But he plans to upgrade his license for long-distance hauls. Another became certified in home healthcare. She hopes eventually to open her own placement business for that.  A t...

  Businesses have backed off from the old-line medium of voice communications.  In the 1950s we boomers called that the telephone. How we loved talking talking talking on the phone. First party lines. Then, what progress, our own private lines.  By relying primarily on email, message apps and DMs, currently organizations miss out on the powerhouse advantages of talking on the phone. In this article in Substack I explain those edges and introduce 3 ways to get workers back talking on the phone to succeed professionally.  Low on hope about finding, holding, or moving on to better work?  Getting that back is the first step. Then you and I, as your career coach, move on to diagnosing what's in the way, trying out the solutions and creating the communications you need. Free consultation. No pressure. After that, fees custom-made for your budget. Please contact for an appointment Jane Genova (text/phone 203-468-8579, janegenova374@gmail.com). 

  More and more of the aging are in the pickle Fern found herself in. Her husband had died. Her job went poof when the industry in that small town shuttered. She was up in years. That is captured in the hit film "Nomadland." One day Fern climbs into her beat-up van and heads out of town into the unknown. Along the way she encounters Bob Wells . His mission is to equip aging nomads with survival skills. Like Fern, Wells had his own dark night of the soul. A divorce wiped him out financially. The suicide of his son hit hard.  Here in Subsack I introduce how to make it after you lose that good job. The two strikes against you are 1) The hiring rate is 3.3% and 2) Age bias is so there. I have been honored to be the Bob Wells in the lives of those whose hope was running low. Hope is the platform for a new start. In my work coaching I provide sliding scale fees. Pay what you can. Affordable Career Coach Jane Genova provides end-to-end career services, ranging from diagnosis of the...

The very long cover story on Prince Harry (along with Meghan Markle) in  Vanity Fair  looks like it’ll bring about the post-trauma era.  The hatchet job analysis by Anna Peele makes it uncool to take refuge in what went on in the past for an explanation of current behavior. This undoes a habit, extending back to the heyday of Freudian thought in America, of assuming our individual traumas are of great interest to others. And that those emotional upheavals, right up into our semiretired and retirement years, will get us off the hook for mistakes, missed opportunities and actual crimes.  The man-child featured in the Vanity Fair expose has created a comfort zone from reaching back to the memory of losing his mother in his childhood. He labels her death "murder." That path of living-in-the-trauma is well-worn. Oprah traveled it on the way to fame. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton made it part of their promotional narrative. Monica Lewinsky finally hit upon a brandin...

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