{"id":36775,"date":"2013-01-15T22:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_how_five_workers_over_50_remade_their_careers\/"},"modified":"2013-01-15T22:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:31:27","slug":"ny_times_how_five_workers_over_50_remade_their_careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36775","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) How Five Workers over 50 remade Their Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a baby boomer\u2019s nightmare. One moment you\u2019re 40-ish and moving up, the next you\u2019re 50-plus and suddenly, shockingly, moving out \u201d\u201d jobless in a tough economy.<\/p>\n<p>Too young to retire, too old to start over. Or at least that\u2019s the line. Comfortable jobs with comfortable salaries are scarce, after all. Almost overnight, skills honed over a lifetime seem tired, pass\u00c3\u00a9. Twenty- and thirty-somethings will gladly do the work you used to do, and probably for less money. Yes, businesses are hiring again, but not nearly fast enough. Many people are so disheartened that they\u2019ve simply stopped looking for work.<\/p>\n<p>For millions of Americans over 50, this isn\u2019t a bad dream \u201d\u201d it\u2019s grim reality&#8230;.[and] though there is no single path, there are success stories that offer hope&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/13\/business\/how-5-older-workers-saw-a-chance-to-remake-their-careers.html?pagewanted=all\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a baby boomer\u2019s nightmare. One moment you\u2019re 40-ish and moving up, the next you\u2019re 50-plus and suddenly, shockingly, moving out \u201d\u201d jobless in a tough economy. Too young to retire, too old to start over. Or at least that\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36775\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,101,589,149,597,98,136,129,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-middle-age","category-psychology","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}