Having read ‘The 100-Year Life’, I wonder if I was adopting its prescriptions ahead of time. I have definitely not experienced a 3-stage life! So far, I have had 5 careers. That encompasses about a dozen jobs and employers. In between these I had...
Read MoreI have believed all my life that I can achieve my dreams. It just seems I kept getting in my own way and the dreams I had were always deferred. Deferred because I had a son at 17 because I married at 17...
Read More50 years old. I have an English literature degree. Story after Uni in UK: Age 22 – 24: Worked with international students for a christian charity in Brussels. Age 24 – 25: Admin for a mental health charity in London. Age 25 – 26:...
Read MoreBorn in England at the start of WW2, adopted, living near London. Apprenticed at 17 as Student engineer, migrated to Australia 1965 with wife and child. Migrated to New Zealand 1976 and retired at age 65. My career covered a wide...
Read MoreI’m a civil engineer by profession and worked as a procurement executive in construction industry for the most part of my professional career in Turkey, Georgia and UAE. My last role was Head of Procurement, setting up and managing a team...
Read MoreContrary to most, though highly educated and having worked in senior positions in a number of small businesses I have struggled to acquire employment for the past three years to date, living in a foreign country (South Africa) originally Zimbabwean. Despite...
Read MoreContrary to many others, I’m presently going through a transition myself. Many would have thought I am stupid to give up a great career – I’m already among the ranks of senior management and have great financial stability. Having said that,...
Read MoreWhen I graduated from vet school, I did what most do–got a job, moved on to another job, and looked to settle down into a career. Like a few of my colleagues, I was driven to open my own feline specialty practice,...
Read MoreLong story short…. 25 year international career worked in HR & Business for great Canadian companies CAE Electronics, BNR, Nortel and lastly SVP HR at CIBC. Re-structured at age 51 from CIBC. Re-invented self as HR consultant/ part owner in small business selling...
Read MoreI am a HongKonger, the founder of CFO Today-an asset and property management and consulting company. I lived through transition from a poor family living in old public housing estate with shared toilets with 100 plus neighbors around until I am 11...
Read MoreI was taught an early lesson on sudden life transitions when the Soviet Union collapsed and I moved from a Ukrainian communist state education to a capitalist private boarding school in Brighton. The change from being a popular girl in school,...
Read MoreIt’s nearly 3 years since I graduated from university with entrepreneurial dreams. I wanted to create an online media company for young and aspiring entrepreneurs. It was called Getting Off The Bench. What I had experienced at university fascinated me. During...
Read More“You’ll soon be very frustrated” my manager told me when I joined GE, straight out of my PhD, beaming with happiness, passionate and excited to be joining one of the best companies to work for. The first hire of a new...
Read MoreBy current estimates, I have yet to reach the half-point of my life. By my own family’s longevity, this also seems like it could be an accurate lifetime for me (without wanting to tempt fate, I certainly hope to live a...
Read MoreMy transition happened when I was coming up to 50. I’d enjoyed working in a large multi-national organisation for 16 years – varied roles, ongoing development and for me, the perfect balance with family life. At 50 I had more time,...
Read MoreI’m about to turn 35 and, with my second and youngest child about to celebrate his first birthday, I’ve said good-bye to running Spark+Mettle, a small charity I founded aged 30, and have just said yes to a full-time position working...
Read MoreAs a woman, starting my career in the late 1960’s, I followed the traditional route for an English major and became a teacher. I knew I wanted to “be in business”, but my counsellor told me that “Women in business became...
Read MoreLike many historically traditional career paths, I followed my father’s footsteps and joined him in his one man band business as a signwriter as soon as I left school. This art was quickly replaced with technological solutions, making traditional signwriting one...
Read MoreThis summer I reach my threescore years and ten but my life to date and my thinking is so different to that of my parents’ journey at this stage and, indeed, that of many of my peers. I am fortunate to...
Read MoreI became a father at 35 and my newly born son immediately sat in a rather empty field of responsibility in my life. Up until that point I had consciously avoided a pension, savings, mortgage and marriage. I always felt I...
Read MoreIn The 100-Year Life – Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, published June 2nd 2016 by Bloomsbury Publishing, Lynda Gratton and Andrew J Scott outline the challenges and intelligent choices that all of us, of any age, need to make in order to turn greater life expectancy into a gift and not a curse. This is not an issue for when we are old but an urgent and imminent one.Extremely well received by critics and readers alike, the book has received extensive coverage around the world.
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The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity has won the second prize of The 2017 Business Book Award of Japan.
Read MoreLynda Gratton and Andrew Scott’s recent article in MIT Sloan Management Review is an important piece about the inconsistent corporate response to increased longevity. Read the article here.
Read MoreEslite, the leading bookstore in Taiwan, has chosen The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity as the Best Book in February.
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