Matt Lauer Says He Loves This Encore Story

AARP’s Jane Pauley didn’t mince words on this morning’s Your Life Calling segment on NBC’s Today show. Jenny Bowen, she said, had no child development expertise, no foreign policy experience and no knowledge of the Chinese language when she set...

Goodbye 30-Year Retirements, Hello Encore Years

We need a new map of life. We’ve been making do with one that was fashioned for an expected longevity of threescore and 10. We shouldn’t knock that legacy. At one time, that constituted progress. But we can’t stuff a 21st century life span into a...

Working Past 50 Can Bring More Satisfaction

If you’re over 50, chances are that continuing to work — and being truly engaged in what you do — will boost your well-being. Researchers at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College found that people 50 and older are more likely than...

Fast Company: Encore Fellowship Suits Career Shifter

The decades-long career is in decline. And for many, that’s a good thing. “Tacking swiftly from job to job and field to field, learning new skills all the while, resembles the pattern that increasingly defines our careers,” writes Anya Kamenetz in...

Expanding Choices for the Next Stage of Work

Retire poor? Grind away at your current job? Find part-time work that a teenager could (and probably wants to) do? Many Americans planning their next stage of life want better choices. One such choice is an encore career, a category that recognizes that what many...