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• Disappointed Expectations: The Obstacle of “No Guarantee”

  Reading about the history of retirement as a life-stage in the industrialized world, I realized that the expectations held by most of us, born after the Second World War, were “givens” or “truths” that were incredibly new as social phenomena. In fact, funded retirement from work-life only emerged in the mid 19th century, modeled on [...]

  Posted on Jan 12.13 to career anxiety, Identity, Learning, Loss, mature underemployed professionals, midlife transition, Organizational Consultation, professional life coaching, psychotherapy, small business consulting, Transitions, Unemployment, Working Knowledge Initiative   

• DayTrading & Managing Our Own Minds

  Increasingly, clients have described their turn to trading in volatile and uncertain markets, as their corporate incomes have vanished and their assessments of possible return to their former workforce positions have darkened. Day trading. Paradoxically, they have embraced uncertainty as their former sense of loyalty to firm and task has been disappointed.  Their “security”, they [...]

  Posted on Jun 21.10 to career anxiety, coaching, Emotion, Finding Patterns for Opportunity, job seeking, Learning, Loss, Markets, mature underemployed professionals, Pattern Recognition, Reflective Practice, self management, Self-Knowledge, Transitions, Unemployment   

• Career Anxieties

  This is how she remembered what her husband had said: ” Your preoccupation with work is destroying this family. We can’t take how wretched you’ve become.” And as she told it, she’d successfully kept her underlying depression at bay for years. But 18 months of unemployment— which were the busiest months of her life as [...]

  Posted on Feb 15.10 to career anxiety, career transition, Emotion, job seeking, mature underemployed professionals, midlife transition