10 Best Books for Building a Second Career After 40

I was 43 years old, sitting in my corner office, staring at a spreadsheet that represented my entire career. Twenty years of climbing. Two decades of.

I was 43 years old, sitting in my corner office, staring at a spreadsheet that represented my entire career. Twenty years of climbing. Two decades of.

I’ve had the same core friend group since college. Eight of us, more or less. We’re still close — closer, actually, than we were at 22. But over the years, the group has shifted. Some people moved away. Some got…

I negotiated my salary for the first time at 28. Not dramatically — not with a dramatic counter-offer or a carefully prepared speech. I simply asked, during a.

When I was 24, I had $3,000 in savings, $12,000 in credit card debt, and a vague belief that I would figure out money "eventually." I was making enough to.

For the first three years of running my own business, I woke up at different times every day. Sometimes 7am. Sometimes 9. Sometimes 10, after a late night of.

I was 23 years old, sitting in a Taco Bell parking lot at 11 PM, doing math on the back of a receipt. Not fun math. The kind of math where you’re trying to figure out if you can afford…

Quick Pick if You’re Impatient Start with Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. It will flip your perspective on influence and teach you that nothing is truly original (which is actually freeing). If you want something deeper and more…

I bombed the most important conversation of my career on a Thursday afternoon. I was negotiating a raise with my boss — the raise I'd earned, the raise I.

I used to be a painfully slow reader. While my friends tore through novels in a weekend, I'd still be on chapter three by Monday. I loved books — I just.

My sister called me one Tuesday night in tears. Not sad tears — frustrated tears. The kind that come from years of being the responsible one, the reliable one,.