Comments on: Aging Out and Owning Up http://midlifebloggers.com/2012/12/09/aging-out-and-owning-up/ Making The Most of MidLife--Together Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ukgardenfiend http://midlifebloggers.com/2012/12/09/aging-out-and-owning-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9846 ukgardenfiend Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:07:00 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/?p=6779#comment-9846 I guess I was lucky there as I was already in post – I had been taken on as a temp without the MSc and then as I started the PhD I was given a full-time job at another uni. At that time, experience of business was required more than PhDs and I had had articles published while I was undertaking my Masters so… I have taken a couple of further MA modules but really couldn’t take another exam…now i am considered an important part of my uni and even a serious researcher… Just goes to show.

]]> By: JaneGassner http://midlifebloggers.com/2012/12/09/aging-out-and-owning-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9845 JaneGassner Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:17:00 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/?p=6779#comment-9845 UK Garden Fiend–

Snap, as we Yanks say when two people do the same thing at the same time. I went to graduate school in my 40s and 50s as well. Got my first MA at 47. Finished the coursework and exams for my PhD at 51. Got my second MA at 61. The brain works well; the issue has always been how hiring committees view older candidates. There was a lot of discussion when I was applying for teaching jobs about how to soften the fact that I had gotten my BA in 1968.

]]> By: ukgardenfiend http://midlifebloggers.com/2012/12/09/aging-out-and-owning-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9844 ukgardenfiend Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:48:00 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/?p=6779#comment-9844 I empathise with you Jane. I went back to uni in my 40s… and 50s..again. I know several people getting PhDs in their 50s and starting or at least, re-working their careers as more opportunities come their way. Our brains are still good – if we keep them exercised and we need to keep our bodies exercised too in order for that to work. A circular exercise? I too have many physical issues and my doctors tell me to keep doing what I’m doing. Keep on working – part-time – and keep on exercising in whatever form I can – and keep my brain well greased.. I’m under contract to write a book, so that’s surely working! We are the mental age we think we are, and I’m defintiely not over 60!

]]> By: janegassner http://midlifebloggers.com/2012/12/09/aging-out-and-owning-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9808 janegassner Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:33:00 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/?p=6779#comment-9808 Amen, Isabel, amen. And ditto, as well!

]]> By: janegassner http://midlifebloggers.com/2012/12/09/aging-out-and-owning-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9807 janegassner Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:32:00 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/?p=6779#comment-9807 Dorian G, Save your shekels for CA’14 (the Ojai conference) because I’d love to meet you f2f as well. We would have so much to talk about. I could go through your comment and take up any number of threads to respond to! Where do you actually live?

]]> By: janegassner http://midlifebloggers.com/2012/12/09/aging-out-and-owning-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9806 janegassner Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:29:00 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/?p=6779#comment-9806 Phyllis, I agree with you about the choice we make to dwell on our age or not. Documenting it, however, has become important to me. In some ways, I see myself as the advance guard for all of you who are younger.

]]> By: janegassner http://midlifebloggers.com/2012/12/09/aging-out-and-owning-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9805 janegassner Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:26:00 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/?p=6779#comment-9805 Thanks, for your kind words, Anne. This post was really the beginning of a conversation I’m having with myself. I see that I need to keep on with documenting it. Stick with me!

]]> By: janegassner http://midlifebloggers.com/2012/12/09/aging-out-and-owning-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9804 janegassner Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:23:00 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/?p=6779#comment-9804 Marci,
I think still being in midlife is wanting to question where midlife actually is! The term in media res just came to me, fancy Latin for in the middle of things. Those things are not defined and they certainly have no sell-by date. I wasn’t questioning my place in the arena so much as where I actually wanted it to be. And that is the stuff of another post.

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