Jane Pauley: Her Opinion on What an Encore Career Is and Is Not

Posted by: Laura Schlafly | Posted on: February 9th, 2012 | 0 Comments

Jane Pauley

Jane Pauley is a Baby Boomer and HER Encore Career after she returned to The Today Show in May 2010 with “Your Life Calling”, an AARP sponsored program about how Baby Boomers are moving into a more meaningful time in their :second half of life” and want that time to include work, which includes Purpose, Passion and a Paycheck. Jane wanted to further investigate, with real life stories, a question that seemed to be on the tip of every Boomer’s tongue: What’s next? ”We’re going to live longer than our parents’ generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, ‘What am I going do?’” Pauley says. “You can only play so much golf.”

In the first season of AARP’s series “Your Life Calling,” Pauley told the stories of 12 persons 50 and older who took bold steps into the unknown and reinvented their careers, their retirement and their lives. She traveled the country talking with all kinds of people — from Tripp Hanson, a Broadway dancer turned acupuncturist, to Anthony Tata, a retired Army general turned chief operating officer for a public school system.

Jane is clear that this is not about a total re-invention of one’s self….not changing who you are, but more like honoring the “original you”….your essence, that perhaps never could be fully expressed as it truly was, from the very beginning. But now is the chance for many Boomers to find out if their essence, their calling, truly can be expressed!

In another post I will share with you what Jane found out when she checked in with some of the people who were featured in the prior season’s segments. A most compelling video!

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