Volunteering can be as important as your paid work.
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Are you still talking about career ladders? If you’re in your 40s or 50s, that’s what your parents said to you. Right? I want to persuade you to change how you look at your working life particularly if you’re at the midlife stage. It will help when you start to navigate the next phase:
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Do you feel in charge of your career?
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If you’re thinking about a new role, a new copany or exploring a brand new career path, it’s a series of informational interviews you need.
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At the midlife career stage, it’s important to be able to answer this question.
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If you’ve never done one, here are some starter questions which will help you decide if you need a career review.
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How do you know if you’re at a midlife career crossroad?
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Change is part and parcel of our working lives. According to The Hundred Year Life, the sequenced pathway of education, work, retirement is out of date. Our working lives are much more multi-staged as well as extended. We now have much more autonomy around our careers. Employers are changing too.
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With the right people to talk to, you’re much more likely to make good career decisions and the right changes for the next stage in life.
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Midlife is a pivotal time in our lives, like adolescence. In our 40’s and 50’s, it’s not unusual to find ourselves at a crossroad. Midlife is a time of change, choices, uncertainty, loss and opportunities. These are influences on the next chapters of our life. It’s also typically a watershed where aspects of our multi-facetted lives can collide and create emotional turbulence.
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Someone asked me the other day what advice I would give to twenty something year olds in their first or second job. When I thought about it, what is sound advice for us at the mid- career stage holds true for us all. Here it is:
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Do you have a mentor at the moment? This is a question I often ask when I talk to people about their careers. The answer tells me about the individual, their approach to their learning and self-development.
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Here are five questions that will help you start to answer the question. Looking at our careers as a climbing wall can be a more helpful way of thinking about work rather than the vertical career ladder of ‘onwards and upwards’.
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Helena Morrissey’s book, A good time to be a girl, is another addition to the conversation on equality. The book is part memoir and part story on the 30% Club which Morrissey co-founded in 2010 in the UK.
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A new year often kick-starts conversations about the future. You might be thinking about changes that need to be made around your career or your current job. Time away over a festive period can bring a different perspective.
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Have you thought about what living to a hundred will be like? It will soon be unremarkable to live that long. Many societies, including the UK, are rapidly ageing. There’s lots of discussion about the funding challenge but not enough about the decades that precede our twilight years and what we do with our longer lives.
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