Whether you want to go green, earn more cash, or get paid for your passion, here’s a guide to the best career moves.
Reinvent Your Career
What defines a great job for a midlife woman?
It's one that gets you up every morning eager to work: "It's a perfect fit,'' says Becky Lessard, a finance chief and green czar who's looking at windmills and biomass to power a sock-making factory in Osage, Iowa. "I'm never bored,'' says Cheryl Chalfant, a landscape architect and former advertising executive who loves it when her environmentally conscious teenagers brag about her projects. "This feeds my soul and my intellect,'' says Brenda Wheeler Ehlers, a New Jersey pastor.
It's a job that's in a growing sector of the economy and where the premium isn't on youth but on smarts, savvy, even experience.
Finally, it offers the fluidity -- working remotely, flexible hours -- and the pay that so many midlife women want. Sit in a wireless cafe in Rome, defending your client from IRS aggression at $400 an hour? It's not impossible.
MORE spoke to headhunters, educators, and other experts about societal trends, up-and-coming careers and workplace options. The results: 10 hot jobs that may make you want to change your life.
