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Over 50? Tell Us Where You Live. Tell Us Why You Like It.

March 22, 2017 by D. A. Wolf 52 Comments

Let’s get real on the subject of growing older, where we might live, and sharing information to help each other.

Filed Under: Popular, Starting Over Tagged With: aging, aging gracefully, asking for help, baby boomers, best places to live, change, hardship, job searching, life events, moving, reinvention, relocation, starting over, transitions, women over 50, women over 60

Midlife Makeover: New Career or Job After 50

October 19, 2015 by D. A. Wolf 13 Comments

New job over age 50? What would it take?

Filed Under: Business, Lifestyle, Starting Over Tagged With: ageism, aging, Andrea, careers, confidence, job loss and divorce, Job search after 50, job searching, midlife makeovers, reinvention, starting over, starting over in a career, women over 50, women over 60, work life

Rehirement Planning: 6 Job Search Tips for Seasoned Professionals

June 26, 2014 by Andrea Clement 2 Comments

Struggling in your job search? Tips from a recruitment professional.

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: aging, careers, HR, job market, job searching, midlife, positive attitude

Gender Bender: Joke’s On Me

June 11, 2013 by D. A. Wolf 4 Comments

Gender riddles and gender roles.

Filed Under: Business, Parenting, Women's Issues, Work-Life Tagged With: Business, careers, compensation, cultural values, gender roles, job searching, New York Times, women and career, women and money, women's issues, work life balance

Best Places to Live When You’re Over 50

November 19, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 508 Comments

Start over, but where? Resources, considerations.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Popular, Starting Over Tagged With: aging, aging gracefully, best places to live, dating over 50, empty nest, housing, job searching, midlife, moving, parenting college students, post-divorce life, reinvention, relocating, relocation, starting over, women over 50, women over 60

Single Parent? Mommy Track? No Spring Chicken?

May 13, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 14 Comments

The mommy track trap, especially for older (single) moms.

Filed Under: Money Matters, Parenting, Single Moms, Surviving Recession, Women and Money, Women's Issues Tagged With: gray divorce, interpreting data, job loss and divorce, job searching, motherhood, Parenting, recessionary economy, single moms, Single Parenting, Surviving Recession, women and money, women's issues

Anger or Impotence

April 7, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 6 Comments

While visions of Reality TV and sexual athletics may be dancing through my head in the early a.m. – as I am extricating myself from dreams – within a few minutes of brewing my coffee and scanning a few headlines, other thoughts quickly take precedence. In keeping with yesterday’s theme – the “human” side of […]

Filed Under: Business, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting, Surviving Recession Tagged With: daily plate of crazy, economy, job loss and divorce, job searching, post-divorce life, ramble, real life, Single Parenting, Surviving Recession

Nepotism (or, How to Get a Job in a Post-Modernist Recessionary Economy)

September 21, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 17 Comments

Want work? Who do you know?

Filed Under: Art Art Art, Business, Lifestyle, Surviving Recession Tagged With: debt stress index, definitions of success, interpreting data, job searching, jobs, life skills, post-modernism, rant, real life women, recessionary economy, skepticism, social media, success my way, what are you worth, work life, would you quit your job

The Lost Art of the Generalist

April 8, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 22 Comments

We all strive to specialize in something, don’t we? We seek expertise, authority and recognition. But what about the generalist – and all the skills so useful in life that are widely applicable to any choice of career? And if you are a generalist, can you “sum yourself up” in a concise way? Can you […]

Filed Under: Business, Parenting Tagged With: careers, creativity, education, elevator speech, human resources, is college the brass ring, job searching, opportunity, parenting teens

Roses. Monday. Complaint Department is OPEN.

March 29, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 21 Comments

It’s Monday. It’s really Monday. So the Complaint Department is open for business again. Here. Now. And then I have to get on with sorting out the umpteen messes of the past few hours and the weekend. How about you? Kids, by any other name, would smell as sweet Okay. Maybe it’s roses. Maybe it’s […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: big little wolf, biglittlewolf, complaint department, complaints, customer service, daily plate of crazy, dailyplateofcrazy, job opportunities, job scams, job searching, mondays, Morning Musing, parenting teens, paris, Paris travel, poor customer service, roses, running away from home, teens, Travel

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