7 Signs You Have Outgrown Your Career
Owen came back from two weeks in Crete on a Sunday night. By 9:40 on Monday morning, the holiday was gone. He was in the weekly project review, and he already knew how it would end. He knew who would raise the budget, who would defend the timeline, and…
Halfway Through My Career Advice, I Stopped Believing It
A younger professional asked me for career advice. Halfway through my answer, I realized I no longer believed some of it. If you have spent twenty or…
Why Keeping Your Options Open Gets More Expensive After…
Margot keeps her CPA license in her wallet, behind her hospital badge. She has renewed it six times since she last signed anything with it. Each renewal…
Why Every Success Makes Starting Again Harder
The trousers were navy wool, with a chalk line drawn three-quarters of an inch above the old hem. They lay on a workbench at the back of…
When Six Months Pass and Nothing Happens
Desmond’s calendar has a thin grey line under every entry that says who sent the invitation. For twenty-eight years that line carried other people’s names: a committee…
How to Get Your First Client After 40 (Without…
Your first client almost never comes from marketing. Here is where it actually comes from after 40, and the three-layer method for finding it.
