You remember reading about the mountain climbers who scale Mount Everest?
They will all tell you it can’t be done without the assistance of their elite mountain guides, the Sherpas. The Sherpas are an ethnic group of former nomadic people who settled in the mountainous region of Nepal in the Himalayan mountain range.
I was reading a review of Jane Pauley’s recent book Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life in which she described herself as a “Sherpa.” She wrote her book to give guidance and assistance to those of us over the age of 50 who, for one reason or another, had given up their corporate careers and are now wondering, “What do I do with the rest of my life?”
Her comments caught my attention because I was one of those thrown out of an industry after 31 years and they wouldn’t let me or my friends back in (frankly, I didn’t want to re-enter the industry so I didn’t push back).
I’m right in the middle of the boomer generation having been born in 1955
The boomer generation is characterized by hard working individuals, doing whatever is necessary to get the job done, and a very high loyalty factor to their employers. The employee/employer relationship broke down. But the sense of loyalty never went away because it’s ingrained in us. For someone like myself, I had to learn to channel the loyalty to a different and new entity—me. Read More Become Your Own Sherpa
