In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work

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Learning Is Fundamental

After retiring from her management position, Marjorie Dorr took art classes, learned to teach yoga, and became a vegan chef. “But I wasn’t passionate about what I was doing after feeling part of something bigger than myself and always growing during my career,” Dorr told me. “Frankly, I was bored. I felt like I was stuck. I was looking to get back into the flow and trying all kinds of things. I took random classes, but they didn’t shift my life.”

Then she and her husband moved from New Hampshire to Texas, to see if they might want to retire there. Once there, she applied and was accepted to the nine-month Tower Fellows program offered by the University of Texas at Austin. The program is for adult professionals who ...