Thinking About Tomorrow: Reinventing Yourself at Midlife

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Chapter 1: Work That Works for You
Midlife is a time for spreading your wings, not clipping them. In Thinking About Tomorrow, Susan Crandell profiles forty-five women and men who have re-imagined and reengineered their lives.

Chapter 1: Brave New Idea: Work Should Be Fun
It's a relatively recent concept that work should be fulfilling. In centuries past, most children moved into their parents' profession, whether it was farming, blacksmithing, or running the general store.

Chapter 1: You Can Go Your Own Way
'My boss is an asshole, but I can work with him because I know him so well.' That's the self-deprecating joke Portland, Oregon, native Steve Weiner cracks, describing his feelings about becoming his own boss after twenty-two years of corporate life.

Midlife is a time for spreading your wings, not clipping them. In Thinking About Tomorrow, Susan Crandell profiles forty-five women and men who have re-imagined and reengineered their lives. A banker who left a thriving career to buy and run a small-town zoo. A woman who gave birth to her first child at fifty-one. A former TV cameraman who says losing his job at forty-eight was a gift because it motivated him to launch a business building race cars. A woman who, after turning forty, dropped ninety pounds and became a triathlete. A forty-three-year-old homemaker who built her own airplane. These gutsy people made their fantasies come true, and their profiles offer specific lessons to help anyone conceive and realize their dreams.

Thinking About Tomorrow is much more than a guide to second careers or getting a job after fifty-it's a blueprint for life reinventions of all kinds. This is a book about possibilities, encouraging all of us not to define ourselves by what we've done but to move forward with excitement into a future we make for ourselves. With fifty quick tips for jump-starting a life reinvention and a list of the best resources available, Thinking About Tomorrow provides all the tools necessary to create a more exciting and fulfilling life at any age.

I got my first job after college not because I was the smartest applicant - I wasn't - but because I was the only one with a pilot's license. I'll be grateful forever to Bob Parke for hiring me at Flying magazine because that's where I met the love of my life, Stephan Wilkinson (the author of two wonderful books, The Gold-Plated Porsche and Man and Machine).

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