The Year I Saved My (Downsized) Soul


In The Year I Saved My (Downsized) Soul: A Boomer Woman’s Search for Meaning and a Job, Carol Orsborn describes in graphic detail her one-year search for a job with meaning and purpose.

It was a difficult and discouraging time. “My emails that once held the potential to be powerful, catapulting fellow workers and associates into action, now whimpered across electric thresholds. Out of embarrassment or uncertainty about what they could do to help, only the bravest and most compassionate in my circle took my calls,” she recalls.

But her story has a happy ending: She found an encore career.

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