2nd Career
As I get closer to retirement age, I have been thinking about what my working life will look like over the next couple of decades. Having owned a restaurant during the financial crash, I lost all my savings just trying to keep my house from being foreclosed, so being able to retire is probably not going to be an option. My current career requires significant mental acuity to keep my skills up to date, and the plasticity of my brain isn't what it once was, so it is getting harder and harder to keep up. As a consulting professional, my skills are what I need to market myself. I have actually quit several jobs because the work was degrading my skills. If I work on a project for six months to a year that involves maintaining out of date technologies or working in a framework like SharePoint, my knowledge of current technologies will diminish while the world moves forward and the tech evolves. When I finally get back to working on something new, I have forgotten so much and ther...