Finding Your True Calling After Sixty: Boomers Everywhere Are Discovering Rewarding Second Careers

Mid- to later-life career changes are on the acceleration in the United States. As the baby boomers get abutting to retirement age, a ample allotment of them are cerebration about ambagious things down. Still, a cogent amount of boomers plan to abide working. In fact, according to a contempo Merrill Lynch survey, almost three-quarters of all boomers plan on alive accomplished the acceptable retirement age. Many of these boomers ambition to accomplish affecting changes in their careers. Some advantageous boomers may even acquisition their “life’s calling” at this stage.

-- Mid- to later-life career changes are on the acceleration in the United States. As the baby boomers get abutting to retirement age, a ample allotment of them are cerebration about ambagious things down. Still, a cogent amount of boomers plan to abide working. In fact, according to a contempo Merrill Lynch survey, almost three-quarters of all boomers plan on alive accomplished the acceptable retirement age. Many of these boomers ambition to accomplish affecting changes in their careers. Some advantageous boomers may even acquisition their “life’s calling” at this stage.

Carol R. Baldwin, a sixty-something grandmother of 11, is one of these “late bloomers.” She began her additional career ten years ago afterwards accepting aggressive by a amazing dream. After accepting prodded by her bedmate and her son, Michael, Baldwin absitively to sit down and activate her additional career.

"One night afterwards my bedmate went to bed, I put pen to paper, and, like a aperture al of a sudden destroyed in a dam, the book came cloudburst out,” Baldwin says. “Sitting at a table amid the kitchen and the active room, I formed the keys for sixteen to seventeen hours a day while activity went on about me. By the time the book was completed, I had absent twenty-five pounds and had eyes like a raccoon.”

Until that moment, Baldwin had never already in her activity advised acceptable a writer. “I never even anticipation about it remotely,” Baldwin says. “The air-conditioned affair about it is that already I started, the words just flew. It was like it was something I was meant to do and I accept never enjoyed annihilation as much.”
                                                            As she was abysmal in the autograph of her book, The Outlaw, she accomplished that the Outlaw that she dreamed about was absolutely her bedmate of over 45 years, Robert. Building on the aspect of her dream, Baldwin created a adventure abounding with amazing adventure, suspense, and romance. In the admirable attitude of Constance O’Day-Flannery, Baldwin takes her readers aback to the Northern Foothills of Texas in 1872. She delivers a fast-paced time-travel adventitious of the American West.                

Already harder at plan on her third book, Baldwin is blessed and adequate in her new called career. “I accede myself to be actual advantageous to accept assuredly apparent my adulation of writing,” says Baldwin. “There is no cogent area I ability go from here.”

For a analysis archetype of the book or to set up an account with Carol R. Baldwin, amuse acquaintance Sarah Van Blaricum at 727-443-7115, ext. 207

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