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

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Movies typically follow a three-act structure: the set-up of our hero, the confrontation they face, then the resolution. Jordan sadly passed away this month at age 67, but among the legacies he leaves is this: It’s never too late to pivot to your next act or career, and one need not wait until retirement to explore a new passion.

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

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Stand up for yourself more Assertiveness was never my strong suit, especially when I was younger. Ironically, I ended up spending the next 35 years as a freelancer. Play to your strengths—but shore up your weaknesses. Besides the opportunity to buy some new school clothes and get a pair of new shoes, I absolutely loved learning.

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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

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Since joining the company eight years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. With a wife and two teenagers to clothe and feed, he was no longer willing to trust his future to this game of corporate roulette. Now, he was out of a job. The great migration.

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How ‘The Intern’ Explores Transference and Its Impacts on Personal Growth

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In other words, you already know this film is going to have a lot of good kitchens, beautiful clothing and real people having real, human problems. First, the obligatory plot outline: Retired executive Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) gets a gig as a “senior” intern at an up-and-coming fashion website run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway).

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The Founder of Black Girl Ventures Gets Things Done

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When she came up with the idea, the response was less than enthusiastic. Her mom invested her retirement money in the company, and Bell used her tax refunds to buy her own printers. Bell’s story is the same, except in her living room was a teepee, and inside the teepee was a total stranger. And I told them, ‘Yes they will, watch.’ ”.

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Who’s Stuck With The Bill?

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It may be up to the employer to decide on what benefits they offer (subject to local rules and laws). That involves monthly fees, which can also mount up. . You may need to make your own pension or retirement contributions from your salary if your employer is not contributing towards that. .

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). My grandfather, a popular science writer, considered a nation-builder, had seen difficult times growing up. I didn’t bother explaining, and hung up.

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