Never too late

Every year, around this time, thousands of Australians ask themselves the same question: is this the year to finally make a sea-change? With memories of...

Melbourne media executive Garth McBride* admits that it was his ex-wife who dragged him along to his first Botox treatment at 45. Six years later,...

As with any bias it is both conscious and unconscious - be it age, gender, race, religion, sexuality, education, career background, industry sector, location,...

The job search world has changed if you are 50 or over. Once upon a time you could buy the daily broadsheet newspaper (from...

“Don’t get older, get better,” implores front-woman of Aussie electro-rock band Def FX Fiona Horne in her tell-all new memoir, The Naked Witch. Now 51,...

Redundancy can affect us in a myriad of ways. For many in middle-age it can trigger feelings of worthlessness and despair that we never...

If anyone knows how to pick himself up off the cubicle canvas it’s former Hollywood executive John Tarnoff. The author of new book Boomer Reinvention:...

Why is it that today’s job advertisements contain increasingly greater elements of corporate mumbo jumbo? Twaddle that makes no sense to anyone bar the writer? Here...

My generation of women were expected to get married young, have children, be a housewife and mother, and stay at home forever. If you had...

Are the 50s when we start to live fully? Since starting on my book project (I was 40 at the time), I’ve been consistently...