Prefer the story? I told it on Medium: Why “Just Get a Job” Stopped Working for Me at 50. This is the maths underneath it.
Once you’re past fifty and the money looks thin, everyone hands you the same four answers. Get something part-time. Go freelance. Turn the hobby into a little side line.… Read the rest “The Hidden Maths of Midlife Income: What a Part-Time Job Really Pays After 50”
Prefer the story? I told it on Medium: Why “Just Get a Job” Stopped Working for Me at 50. This is the maths underneath it.
Once you’re past fifty and the money looks thin, everyone hands you the same four answers. Get something part-time. Go freelance. Turn the hobby into a little side line.… Read the rest “The Hidden Maths of Midlife Income: What a Part-Time Job Really Pays After 50”
Quiet life. That’s the phrase I never once tested before nearly spending a decade chasing its opposite. It was 11:42 PM on a Tuesday, and I was doing arithmetic on a life I had never once sampled.
My laptop screen cast a cool blue glare across the desk. Open in front of me were three tabs: a real estate listing for a high-rise city apartment, a speculative financial model calculating the revenue needed to justify a London zip code, and a draft of a pitch deck for a business expansion I wasn’t even sure I wanted.… Read the rest “The Quiet Life Is the Ultimate Leverage: How to Test Your Inherited Dreams Before They Steal a Decade”
The career advice currently dominating your feed assumes the problem is your lack of AI skills. Across 312 interviews with professionals displaced by AI over the past year, that assumption kept being wrong. What actually separated the recovered from the stuck was something older, harder to teach, and almost entirely absent from the upskilling discourse.… Read the rest “AI-Resistant Career Capital: The 7 Skills That Outlasted 312 Layoffs”
A companion piece to I Got Replaced by ChatGPT — Then Rehired at Triple the Rate
Experience compounds or decays. The difference isn’t the years — it’s whether you know exactly what you’ve built.
The worst professional mistake I’ve made wasn’t a bad decision. It was describing myself wrong for a decade.… Read the rest “The Human Premium: A Career Audit for Professionals with 10–25 Years of Experience”
Knowing how to handle workplace betrayal professionally is something most career guides skip entirely. Yet workplace betrayal doesn’t usually arrive with a dramatic confrontation.
It rarely looks like what you see in films — a shouting match in the corridor, a formal accusation, a visible falling-out.… Read the rest “Workplace Betrayal: How to Respond When a Colleague Crosses the Line”
