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NEW YORK TIMES: Your true calling could suit a nonprofit

Terry Nagel — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:46:18 -0500

Q. You’ve spent your career in a profit-making business but want your work to be more in line with your personal values… Is this the right reason to make a switch?

Eilene Zimmerman tackles this and other questions about encore transitions to the nonprofit sector in her “Career Couch” column in the New York Times.

In her answer, she quotes Steven Pascal-Joiner, midcareer transitions coordinator for Idealist.org. “It’s not enough to say, ‘I want to work for a nonprofit,’” he said. “You need to know what kind of organization you want to work for, the role you want to play and why.”

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ELDER CARE ANGUISH: Trying Experience Turns Into Second Career

Terry Nagel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:01:32 -0600

Julie Groshens is launching an Elder Care Expo in St. Paul, Minn., to make it easier to explore options for aging relatives.

Frustration with patching together care for her aging mother prompted one baby boomer to start a second job bringing together elder-care resources in one venue.

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MARC FREEDMAN in the WASHINGTON POST: "What work will boomers do?"

David Bank — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:00:17 -0600

Velma Simpson. Photo by Alex Harris.

Marc Freedman, in a column in today’s Washington Post, takes issue with an Allstate ad exhorting Americans to save for 30 years of retirement.

“Millions of boomers are headed not for endless vacation but for a new stage of work, driven both by the desire to remain productive and the need to make ends meet over longer life spans,” Freedman, author of Encore, writes in the piece, “One More Time, With Meaning.”

That makes the central question, both for individuals and society at large, “What work will boomers do?”

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