re: #121 Ferdinand

I turned 51 this week, so the process for me has involved a lot of gaming out scenarios for the next career stage. I’m also in a fortunate position because the youngest of my four kids is 19 and the last one living here. I had basically a 15 year corporate career and a 15 year freelance career (nonprofit communications, publishing, and web design management). Now I need another 15 year arc.

I’m in a good market - greater Seattle. But I’m too far away from the bigger corporate suburbs and even downtown is a haul. I’m interviewing for office management, executive assistant, project manager type roles mostly. But I’m almost certainly going to be earning half of what I was a couple of years ago at best, comparable to where I was twenty years ago. Which is a drag. With that stability though I can likely over sufficient time reignite and reinvent my freelance work in my meager spare time.

I’m in that freelance career (nonprofit communications, publishing, web management), but make that FREElance. I’m not getting paid. I have built three of these nonprofits with my sweat, but don’t know how to make that work for me. Sad!