Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EQD8XMY | Format: PDF
Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life Description
In this inspirational audiobook, beloved broadcast journalist Jane Pauley helps people in the middle of their lives successfully navigate a "reinvention" phase and build a positive, powerful future.
Everyone is talking about "reinvention." President Obama used the term nine times in a State of the Union address. Magazines, newspapers, and online blogs frequently devote coverage to the topic. But even though people are ready to reinvent themselves, many simply don't know where to start. Jane Pauley is here to help.
A familiar face on morning, daytime, and primetime television for more than thirty years, Pauley hosts the award-winning "Your Life Calling" segment on the Today show, profiling many remarkable yet relatable people over fifty whose personal reinvention informs and inspires. They include Betsy, a fifty-seven-year-old healthcare executive who left corporate life to make her cherished pastime - knitting - her full-time occupation. And Paul, fifty-three, who left information technology, where he felt like he "masqueraded as a computer geek for twenty years," built a brick oven in his own backyard, and resolved to open a pizzeria. And did! Gid, a self-described jack-of-all-trades, who admitted to being easily bored, found his calling at sixty-one on the comedy stage, performing in clubs, churches, and on cruises. Gid discovered that Baby Boomers are a lucky generation: "They get a do-over."
With insight and wit, Pauley tells her own story as well. Her warm and often funny perspective makes this audiobook a deeply personal, rewarding, and very timely listen. Your Life Calling is filled with practical ideas, inspiration, and motivation for anyone who knows the yearning for "something different" or "something more."
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 6 hours and 50 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: January 7, 2014
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EQD8XMY
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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