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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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And in life, often your first act is devoted to childhood and education, your second to career and family and your third, following retirement, is how you choose to fill your golden years in service to the legacy you wish to leave. Novels have a beginning, middle and end. Leslie Jordan was likely familiar with third acts.

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As I Enter My 60s, Here’s the Advice I Would Give to My Younger Self

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Eschew higher education? Still others hope to stave off the boredom of retirement, launching blogs, podcasts and YouTube channels to feed their souls. Besides the opportunity to buy some new school clothes and get a pair of new shoes, I absolutely loved learning. Skip the master’s degree What? Others are taking on side hustles.

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The Founder of Black Girl Ventures Gets Things Done

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After earning a degree in computer science, she worked in industries as wide-ranging as education, patent and trade, workforce development, and vacuum cleaner sales. Her mom invested her retirement money in the company, and Bell used her tax refunds to buy her own printers.

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Steel Magnolias, Barbie, and Other Wise Women – In Celebration of a Complicated Women’s History Month By Bonnie Low-Kramen

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Olympia loved that at the beginning of the movie, the women could be seen as the beloved and well worn Southern female stereotypes – preoccupied with gossip, clothes, hair, flowers, and food. It’s not your job to educate the person who just harmed you. The script was about the friendship of women.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

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69 Responses to “Is Your Education Useless?&# If you want to improve your mind, than I think there is no substitute for a quality education. I think my life experiences have provided me with the best education possible – and I’m still learning, every single day. You spent ages getting your degree.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

The news stories focus on completely legitimate reasons for why this is happening, such as staff taking early retirement, fears about Covid and not wanting to return to the office, lack of childcare, and of course, the search for better jobs at higher compensation. What’s going on? What is chasing all these people away?

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