by Ginny Kravitz, Deputy Editor Barely Getting By Remember your first job, first apartment, and living paycheck to paycheck? In the beginning, just being able to make rent and survive in the real world feels like enough — and it is, until you learn that there is something more beyond merely surviving. Even as a career…
Inspiration to Follow Your Blueprint
Could a Franchise be in Your Future?
This retiree sees a franchise as an opportunity to own a business and to create a legacy. You just might be inspired to do the same. “How a Retired FedEx Exec Built a Mini Sandwich Empire”
How to Design a Satisfying Career
At Now What?, we’re all for the goal stated in today’s article: creating careers with an ongoing sense of purpose, and we agree with the advice given, too. What would change if you viewed your next move as a stepping stone in a grand experiment? “Build a Career Worth Having.”
Your Mission Evolves
Today’s article is about a crowdfunding company and how the founders learned to: let the mission evolve, pick up on market feedback, and ultimately, select a focus. While the lesson is for business startups, it also applies to career-changers. What market feedback are you receiving as you consider your next “mission”? “A Plucky Startup Ditches ‘Coin Piggy’ Roots…
How to Plan for Serendipity
The messages in this “parable” about curiosity, possibility, and purpose apply not only to entrepreneurs, but to all you career-changers out there, too. “How Great Entrepreneurs Create Their Own Luck.”
In Pursuit of Fulfillment
Read how Stanford is helping their MBA students go beyond the familiar goal of landing a six-figure gig upon graduation. Kudos to them for introducing this kind of introspection to these young people. Many of us mid-lifers in the Now What?® community only wish we had this kind of support when we were their age! “Stanford MBA’s…