I’ve experienced another level of reality this week, dealing with unemployment compensation and health insurance, meeting with my financial planner and gathering information about social security. It’s been a steep learning curve and I wish I’d spent more time looking at the financial piece of the Wheel of Opportunity. But I mustn’t let the feelings […]
Career & Life Planning
My position was terminated on Monday, November 9, 2009, after about six years working for the same non-profit where I finally landed after reloacting to Tucson Arizona 8 years ago. I know I’m one of the lucky ones, because I already had my Portfolio of Opportunity prepared. In fact if any you are still working […]
Anyone who has moved to a new place as a story about how they got there. When I came to Tucson Arizona in 2001 I heard a voice calling me “Come west, young woman, come West” and at the time I thought I was a young woman. (It is all relevant, as we say.) Anyway, […]
So, when I saw the intake form listing “employment status” for the first time with 3 boxes clicked, I experienced quite a revelation. In today’s economy one can easily fit in the following 3 categories: Unemployed, Self Employed and Retired, Previously retired (at least I did retire, or thought that was a retirement party) Self […]
