{"id":6449,"date":"2017-11-03T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2017-10-30T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T18:43:49","slug":"sociology-in-action-encore-careers-for-baby-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2017\/11\/03\/sociology-in-action-encore-careers-for-baby-boomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology in Action: Encore Careers for Baby Boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For baby boomers who want to engage in some type of meaningful work when they retire, the transition can be an uncertain one, as many employers are unsure of how to put the skills and experience of retirees to use. University of Minnesota\u2019s <\/span>Phyllis Moen<\/span><\/a> aims to help those entering this stage of life, putting her sociological work into practice. Moen relied upon her extensive work on the aging process (like her <\/span>2016 book<\/span><\/a>) to found <\/span>The Advanced Careers Initiative<\/span><\/a>. The<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Star Tribune<\/span><\/i><\/a> recently talked to Moen about her program, and she explains,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy vision is to support boomers who are navigating transitions, provide a talent pool to meet community challenges and build a model for public universities to open their doors to people of all ages, providing transformational intergenerational learning.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The program is in its inaugural year with 10 fellows — it plans to host 20 fellows each year in the future. These individuals range from age 50-72 and come from diverse professional backgrounds including psychology, law, and communications. Moen sees potential for the program to broaden how people use higher education as they get older:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very worried about this great pool of talent \u2014 this large baby boomer cohort, and those who are coming in their wake \u2014 just sitting on the sidelines of society. That\u2019s our model of retirement: You exit one time, all at once, and then you go and have fun. Surveys show that 70 percent of older workers say they want to do some kind of engaging work in retirement, but most don\u2019t do that because they don\u2019t know what\u2019s next and don\u2019t know how to get there. These people are not young \u2014 but they\u2019re not old, either.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For baby boomers who want to engage in some type of meaningful work when they retire, the transition can be an uncertain one, as many employers are unsure of how to put the skills and experience of retirees to use. University of Minnesota\u2019s Phyllis Moen aims to help those entering this stage of life, putting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[96227,19434,39112,11317,76],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-advanced-careers-initiative","tag-baby-boomers","tag-culture","tag-retirement","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6452,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}