by Lori Martinek | Jan 15, 2024 | Lori Martinek Writes
Encore entrepreneurship is the best revenge for highly experienced professionals facing ageism. Linkedin promotes ageism by requiring dates for work experience. Articles then advise older users to limit what they include in their profiles (and on their…
by Lori Martinek | Jul 25, 2023 | Lori Martinek Writes
Ageism is a significant issue faced by tenured professionals who want to continue working beyond their 60s but struggle to find suitable job opportunities due to biases and misconceptions about their capabilities. Companies, however, frequently have project…
by Lori Martinek | Jul 15, 2023 | Lori Martinek Writes
The AP partnership with OpenAI may hope to improve the accuracy of the farmed content but does it really resolve the greater issues? Remixing and its step sibling, outright plagiarism, have always been staples of poor, unimaginative writers. A little of…
by Lori Martinek | Jul 8, 2023 | Lori Martinek Writes
Has ageism made retirement a dirty word? Do some of us reject the ‘retired’ label, lest others (mistakenly) perceive us as ‘done’? Euphemisms (e.g. transitioning) seem a bit like denial, yet traditional definitions no longer apply. We…
by Lori Martinek | Jul 7, 2023 | Lori Martinek Writes
There is a tsunami coming — a swelling tide of older Americans who are woefully unprepared for retirement in any shape or form. This is an undeniable reality. Preparing financially for retirement is ideally a long game…
by Lori Martinek | May 9, 2023 | Lori Martinek Writes
Addictive achievement. It’s fueled by the buzz that comes from getting to a goal, receiving recognition or setting an impressive new standard and it’s something that many of us suffer from. The socially acceptable term for it…