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Great tips on resume setup to avoid looking like a job hopper! Nice

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Hello John and all the Career@50 Gang! Unfortunately, I had been missing the Thursday calls because I was working a job for the holidays during the times of these calls. My holiday gig ended on Jan 20th, but somehow, I was not able to register for this Jan 24th call with the link. I listened to this recorded call and enjoyed hearing Brenda Newberry's amazing story about connecting with her potential employer, and the comments and stories of the others, like Angelica. While unemployed, I signed into a Continuing Ed Program to earn a Certification of Graphic Arts. Currently, I am grabbing short term contract work while seeking a Graphic Arts position or to start my own freelance position. I have held informational interviews, with a lot of positive feedback. Plus I changed my label on LinkedIn to be what I want to be, not what I no longer wanted. I have heard things like "Graphic Arts is a 30-ish job". I am 63 (turning 64 in April), and choose not to listen to that. My advice: DO NOT jump into that "old people" mold that people set for you!!!

Hello! Unfortunately I was not able to attend this event but wanted to share a short story. Thank you for sharing the recording. Here is something I wanted to share. I am a 54 women accomplished in sales, business and team management. After almost a year job hunting and consistently being told I was over qualified, I was not able to find a job at my level. Financially it was very difficult but I survived. Last November I was 'lucky' to get an entry level contract doing validation of insurance contract working from home. Surprisingly, I am accepting this situation and the frustration from the many rejections has finally stopped. Although I am not in a role I should be, I am using this time to recharge. I am grateful and relieved that I will be able to stay above water financially, which will allow me to rethink my career. I am really interested in writing and would love to turn around my career and go 180 degree away from what I have done in my 30 year career. I trust that this acceptance of doing this type of job will lead me somewhere I would probably have never allowed myself to explore.

Hey John thanks for the replay. Listening to it now. not a fan of resolutions either. Now calling them intentions. I'm pretty much set with short term SMART goals that will keep me laser focused for the next few years. I do have plans to get back into the workforce as well through word of mouth and networking to create an additional stream of income while I dabble in the book publishing world as my "side hustle." I am in the early stages of exploring a new encore career as a first-time published author. I wrote my project 2019-2021. 2022 was down time for family matters and medical challenges. In 2023 I connected with Amazon Self-Publishing, they liked the samples of my work, and we started editing my first draft for the first edition last year. After my job loss from Disney, I discovered I loved content creation and the field of personal and career development. I'm grateful for my job loss and now call it divine intervention. I would not have had the vision to create a 365-day devotional of best practices for job search/career pivots unless I had taken that journey myself. Also completed (last year) a first draft for a tiny bites companion for the first edition. Because job search and career decisions at any age are a never-ending multi-generational cycle of life, I've found my sweet spot, my dream job and my why. I love what I'm doing so much, I'm jumping ahead of the game because I believe in me and my product. In 2024 I've started working on a first draft for a second edition for my vision for a series of holistic self-help books for finding passion, purpose, dream jobs and our why. I know there are thousands of books out there in the same category, however, that's what side hustles are for! LOL! No pain no gain! These projects should keep me productively "busy" for a while. HAPPY NEW YEAR!