Making a Career Change in Your Golden Years Not Impossible
Glen Luckman Making a Career Change By Nelson A Simmons
According to Glen Luckman growing up in a poor, one parent home, the chance of an education beyond grade school was not an option. I had many hopes and dreams growing up, but due to financial reasons, my future career choices were limited. I joined the army at 18 and went into engineering, which took me to the west coast of BC.
During my three year term I got married and became the father of four beautiful girls that are now doing well on their life roads. During these past forty years I have worked diligently at being successful in a number of work from home ventures. Never successful in my duties with these different companies, I began to think that a home business was not for me. I would be dishonest if I said I was happy or satisfied with these home business ventures.
It seemed as though I couldn’t stake my claim to that lucrative paved highway. Nothing ever seemed to click for me.
Retirement time was suddenly at my door. With very little pension and no bank account worth while mentioning I was worried about my future. However, being young at heart and full of enthusiasm and ambition for a more streamlined life style to be shared with my new wife, I came upon a work at home business with real payoffs. Embarking on a new career at my age seemed very daunting and scary, I’ll admit that i had many reservations coming in, but for the first time in my career, I feel truly successful and have found what truly works for me.
The following is a guideline that I chose to follow and for all of those people in their golden years, looking for a career or a career change, the following will help you as it did me.
First off, stop listening to your friends and neighbours in your same age group that say you can’t do it. We all have those individuals in our lives who focus more on skepticism rather than realism. Nothing is impossible and you should always allow time to hear people out before making a judgement. If I had passed immediate judgement when this business opportunity was provided to me I may have missed out on financial freedom for my golden years.
The second tidbit of advice I have for you is to do your homework. In my long life I chose to set off on work from home ventures without doing my homework or reading the ‘roadmap’ that would lead me to financial success. With the business I am in now I am pleased to say I decided to pick up that ‘roadmap’, invest a good deal of time and effort into researching the background of this business and came out not only wiser, but more financially stable.
I assure you and I think that many older people can relate to me, we came from a time where many didn’t believe in banks, cell phones or new age technology such as the Internet.