Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life Author: Jane Pauley | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CVR4USI | Format: PDF
Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life Description
IN 2014, EVERY BABY BOOMER WILL HAVE REACHED THE MILESTONE AGE OF FIFTY. FOR MOST, IT’S NOT AN END BUT THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING NEW.This is the awakening of a generation to the opportunities that lie ahead. Research has shown that people in their fifties are more vital now than they were only ten years ago. They’re saying, “I’m game, I’m up for it, I want to do more.”
Jane Pauley, one of America’s most beloved and trusted broadcast journalists, gives voice to the opportunities of her generation—and the next one too—offering humor and insight about the journey forward.
Your Life Calling is a fresh look at ideas that have been simmering since boomers first entered midlife with a different perspective on the future than any generation before: that there was more to come—and perhaps the best of all.
Jane is not an advice giver but a storyteller. Here she tells her own and introduces readers to the fascinating people she has featured on her award-winning
Today show segment,
Life Reimagined Today. You’ll meet Betsy McCarthy, who traded in her executive briefcase for knitting needles; Gid Pool, who launched a career as a stand-up comic; Richard Rittmaster, who joined the National Guard Chaplain Corps; Trudy Lundgren, who took her home on the road in an RV; Paulie Gee, who opened a successful pizzeria in Brooklyn; and many more. Their stories are delightful, compelling, and inspiring for anyone asking “What am I going to do with my supersized life?”
- File Size: 5114 KB
- Print Length: 273 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1476733767
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (January 7, 2014)
- Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CVR4USI
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,428 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Aging - #50
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Self-Help > Personal Transformation - #61
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Self-Help > Motivational
The best parts of the book are where Jane Pauley writes about herself. I did not know she was bipolar. She also talks about herself and some of her insecurities.
The book is highly anecdotal. I felt the book should have been divided into two sections with one section about people pursuing new interests and another about people pursuing new careers.
Many of the people in this book I would say are in retirement-they don't have to worry about money. I think that is a common form of reinvention-people in retirement who no longer have to worry about money so they can pursue what they are interested in rather than make money. Benjamin Franklin and Bill Gates might be examples of this type of reinvention.
However, I think this book will be a disappointment to many people who are fifty plus (like myself) who are looking for a change but still need to work. Many of the women in this book did not need to work for money. This is in a contrast to me and many end of the baby boom women who now have major breadwinning responsibilities which their mothers did not have.
Many people both men and women are expecting to need to work until their seventies for money. Most people I know if their fifties if they are lucky enough to be working are feeling the golden handcuff. Their jobs have grown old but they still have major responsibilities and need to work. Many are starting the major expense of sending their kids to college. They have reached a stage in their careers where it is hard to make a change without getting a cut in income and they need the money. In addition, the recession is making it hard for people to change jobs.
Most people I know over 50 want to reinvent themselves. However, many of them lack the means to make this transformation.
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