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Life: at Bat in the Second Inning!

A growing number of us can now expect to liveI know of a friend who after a 30-year career
close to or past 100 years, so 50 has becomeas a journalist found his work shifting from
midlife. Today instead of approachingworking on articles to working with
midlife with the obligations of work andadministrators. The bureaucratic and
family, baby boomers are looking to a secondpolitical hassles that came with the job of
half they pretty much design as they wish.editor of a consumer magazine were no longer
For many of them, the results don't look muchwhat  he  wanted.
like what their parents and grandparents
called  retirement.Figuring there was a good chance he'd live to
90 or beyond, he started thinking about what
Whether because of layoffs or because they'rehe wanted to do with the next third of his
weary of their jobs, many are considering newlife. Luckily he'd developed a passion for
possibilities for their post-50 years andpottery in his 40's and the more he did it,
that includes starting a business of theirthe more he liked it. So when offered a
own. Many of these business endeavorschance to retire early at 63, he jumped at
combine their passions and talents into athe chance to turn his hobby into a second
revenue-producing career. This marriage fitscareer.
their goals in ways a salaried job rarely
could. Some work full-time, but some workHis biggest challenge was to find ways to
part of a day, week, month, or year. Manymarket his work, and he found doing studio
are pursuing work similar to what they didsales several times a year worked for him.
when employed, while others are staking outHe and his wife purchased a 20-acre home in
entirely  new  careers.Virginia, and remodeled a four-stall barn
into a studio workshop and living quarters.
The obstacles that post-50s face in startingThree years later, between the studio sales,
a business are not substantially differentgalleries that carry his work, annual crafts
from those anyone else faces when becomingshows, his Web site and some great publicity
self-employed. Without exception, mosthis  business  is  growing  well.
consider their age as an advantage in
communicating credibility to clients andBest of all he loves what he does and
customers.envisions doing it until they carry him out.
He sees no reason for not having another
What a difference from the ageism experienced30-year career after his first. More and more
by so many on the job! No wonder the U.S."old gray mares" are following the same path.
Small Business Administration is finding theSo if you're nearing or are 50, you are
ages of start-up entrepreneurs is trendingcoming up to bat in the second inning of your
older.life. Why not hit it out of the park!



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