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The First Big Thing About Going Back To Work
By Mary Lloyd

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The economy is certainly forcing quite a few of us who have stepped out of the workforce to start looking for employment again. And there are other strong reasons that get us yearning for the better parts of the old rat race. Going back to work can be the best thing you ever did. But findingand nailing downthe opportunity is a whole different ball game than when we were 18.


Finding work in this economy is hard for job seekers of any age. Finding meaningful work when you've already done a lot and have stepped away from it is hard in ANY economy. The resulting double whammy can make a retiree's job search feel like a hard slog through unending miles of mosquito infested crocodile swamp where there's no end in sight and no safe place to stop.

There are a lot of pieces to doing it well and some good resources for making it easier, but the place where most of us fail the worst is something we can change instantly if we decide to: really COMMITTING to doing it. The biggest challenge of finding work for a retiree is maintaining the commitment to get back into the fray.

I watched this in a networking group I belonged to a few years ago. We met on a regular basis to help each other with search strategy, leads, drafts, and other job re-entry challenges. Most of us had experiencea LOT of it. One of the things that became starkly clear as I attended the meetings was that it's really hard to sustain a job search when you are old enough to retire.

It would be reasonable to blame this on ageism. That's real and prevalent and a back breaker in terms of what you have to do to get your foot in the door. But that's not the biggest piece here. An even bigger problem is that once you've had the freedom in your use of time that retirement offers, it's hard to give it up. I watched many capable people stay unemployed as they cycled between "gotta work/wanna work" and "not quite yet."

The progression proceeded with amazing predictability when the senior job seekers reported on their progress:

Week 1I've talked with X about the Y position at Z Company. They say they'll know who they want to interview next week. I have good connections with their senior management. I'll get an interview.

Week 2The position at Z Company was filled internally before they even talked to me. They suggested I consider the position that was vacated. That's a dead end part of the company and half the pay!

Week 3I think I would be happier doing consulting. I know the guy heading up the new project over at ABC Company. I promoted him ten years ago when he worked for me. That should get me a chance at some of the action.

Week 4They don't need consultants on the ABC project. I've started making some cold calls to see if I can stir up interest somewhere else. I definitely want to make consulting work.

Week 5I'm just not any good at drumming up business for myself. Maybe I can just stay retired if I tighten the purse strings a bit.

Then, after a few weeks where they weren't at the meetings

Week 1I really need to go back to work. Does anyone know anything about DEF Company? They have a job that looks like it was written just for me posted on monster.com."

THE LARGEST SINGLE OBSTACLE TO GETTING BACK INTO THE WORKFORCE ONCE YOU LEAVE IT IS SUSTAINING THE COMMITMENT AND FOCUS TO DO IT.

Being master of how you use your time is hard to let go of. If you really need to go back to regular full-time work, be honest with yourself about what you're giving up. If you really can make a go of it with an occasional consulting project or can avoid work altogether by cutting back on what you spend, you MUST decide which of those strategies you want to run with. And then stop thinking about the other options

DECIDE WHICH VERSION OF A SOLUTION YOU ARE GOING TO IMPLEMENT AND THEN KEEP THAT STRATEGY. DON'T JUMP BETWEEN OPTIONS.

When you keep changing your mind, you never gain enough momentum to get things to happen. You flit from job search to developing leads as a consultant to increased frugality without ever getting the payoff from any of them. Take the time to figure out the approach that looks the best and then just do that. Only that.

Or as Napoleon said, "If you start to take Vienna--take Vienna!"

Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
Mary Lloyd offers seminars on how you can create a meaningful retirement for yourself and consults to help your business attract and use older talent well. She is the author of Supercharged Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love, released April 2009, and is available as a speaker. For more on better alternatives to traditional retirement go to => www.mining-silver.com .

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