Jobs Now, Personal Fulfillment For Life

The number of good financial services jobs for experienced investment management professionals is shrinking in Boston and nationwide. At the same time, longer, healthier lives mean that more of us will work past age 65. What’s a BSAS member to do?

Create a life plan, don’t just plan a career, urged David Corbett, CEO and director of New Directions, a provider of career transition services exclusively for senior-level executives, professionals and their families, in his February 24 BSAS presentation on “Jobs Now, Personal Fulfillment for Life.” He believes that, as philosopher Martin Buber stated, “every man or woman's foremost task is the actualization of his or her unique, unprecedented and never-recurring possibilities.” Over the course of one’s life, you should always be moving toward that actualization.

Our parents’ generation experienced life as a progression of education, then career (perhaps with just one employer), and finally retirement. These days, the progression is more likely to go education, career (with several employers), then a “post-career, pre-retirement” period of less full-time, potentially more fulfilling employment from roughly ages 55 to 75. This is the period when you have the greatest opportunity to attain Buber’s ideal. However, to thrive in this “post-career, pre-retirement” period, it’ll help to identify your long-term goals earlier in your life.

How can you identify your long-term goals? Corbett recommended a lifelong process of reassessment and self-discovery. He also advises you to seek PEPC. In other words, examine your experiences since young adulthood for what makes you feel or sense a grand:

  • Passion
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Calling

Experiences that have excited those feelings are likely to point you in a fruitful direction for exploration.

For further information, contact David at 617-523-7775 or info@newdirections.com

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Susan Weiner, CFA (sbweiner@aol.com) specializes in writing and editing that helps investment-related companies win new business and retain clients.