Over 50 and seeking second career – Success stories?
January 28th, 2011 Filed under: Project Management Careers — Business Author
Florida SunLover asks the question: Would like to know how others did with their “second career”.
I will have pension income from first career, but would like to know if paying for job marketing services has helped others get quicker placement, or did you connect through your own direct efforts. Please give me an approx. annual income for your second career. [35K, etc]
I am leaving an $84K yr job, and will still need $45K min to “break even” in addition to pension.
will be seeking “project manager”, “purchasing”, or property management.
I obtained a Real Estate License, but I guess you’ve heard !!!!
Answer:G’day mate. well I don’t know how you’ll go. I take it you are resident in the USA. but here in Australia we have a different pay scale. As a project manager here you would have little difficulty in getting a job and the pay would be about 60 thousand PA.but i don’t know how the US job situation is. As a guide to the financial side of things. My lifemate was a company internal auditor for the last ten years of his career at about Aus $130 thousand PA. but he found no difficulties with his superannuation fund amount. and now as a retired man of 58ys he works as an inwards goods manager at$35thousand PA and loves it.
Further comparisons are, a good quality car ie, honda 4wd costs new
$ 60,000 a house in a decent suberb $450,000 to $650,000
a PC $500 to $2500 health insurance is covered by the government but extra for private health cover costs$18 pW
i take it by what you said about breaking even you still have debts to service. so you are not in the position to be choosy. I still think you will do well because you obviously have qualifications. when you apply for work make sure that the prospective employer knows about them as even if you are like my love; overqualified at 50+ you are prized by many companies. best of luck.ROBERTO.(Other – Careers & Employment)
