Don't Stop the Career Clock: Rejecting the Myths of Aging for a New Way to Work in the 21st Century

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 232 pages
• Published by: Davies-Black Publishing April 25, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0891061274
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0891061274
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 14.6 ounces

Product Review
Don't Stop the Career Clock is a blast of optimism for 40-something boomers and those even later in life who think they are on the downhill slope. Harkness successfully bursts many of the stereotypes of aging. -- Book Page, April 1999

Fortunately, Harkness provides positive ideas and hands-on suggestions to help us change. The last section of the book, "Resetting the Career Clock," is especially valuable, outlining a seven-step plan and backing it up with an impressive array of charts and questionnaires designed to help you reach the satisfying and meaningful work you want. This is one formula that will keep working for a long time. -- Get Up and Go! May 1999

Helen Harkness has some great ideas. The title of her book says it all. If you need to be convinced that you're only as old as you think you are, read the first 72 pages. But if you've grown up without growing old, start on page 73, with the section titled: "Learning a New Way to Tell Time." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 1, 1999

Your career is like a book with familiar plot lines but perhaps unexpected developments. Follow the books for help to find your own happy ending: Don't Stop the Career Clock. -- Associated Press, September 27, 1999

Product Description
Following the success of The Career Chase, Helen Harkness sounds a clarion call for a new model of aging, working, and retiring. With dozens of inspirational stories of individuals who have created their most satisfying careers during their golden years,Harkness shows how to reset your career clock for the 21st century.

Reader Reviews
While surfing the Internet, I discovered a site where for $2.00 you can purchase excerpts from books on their list. Because of my interest in anti-aging issues, I purchased three excerpts from a book titled Don't Stop the Career Clock: Rejecting the Myths of Aging for a New Way to Work in the 21st Century by Helen Harkness, Ph.D. I was so impressed by what I read in the excerpts that I immediately purchased the book. If the excerpts were impressive, the book blew me away. I finally found someone who understands how to successfully manage the aging process. Dr. Helen Harkness is well past retirement age but wisely refrains from revealing her chronological age. However, I can tell you that after meeting her at her office in Garland, TX, she functions as a dynamic, fifty-year old. She maintains an active professional schedule as president of Career Design Associates, Inc., which specializes in individual and organizational renewal through career and management training programs. She has been an English professor, department chair, director of adult education, acting dean of business development, and academic dean and provost at the University of Plano in the 1970s. When I last corresponded with her, she was off to Australia to deliver a keynote address. Don't Stop the Career Clock is filled with meticulous research to support the author's thinking and beliefs about aging and working. There is something on every page worth highlighting. Particularly helpful for those vacillating between retirement and continuing to be productive in one capacity or another, is the chapter "Seven Steps for Resetting Your Career Clock." In this chapter, Dr. Harkness provides numerous exercises to help you think about what you are good at, and what you might really want to do with the rest of your life. The exercises alone are worth ten times the cost of the book. What I personally found most helpful is the chapter "Learning a New Way to Tell Time." In it, Dr. Harkness says, ". . . because of our social and cultural expectations, we program ourselves to begin to fall apart at a certain designated age, and we oblige.". She then gives her "live long, die fast" contemporary model for aging which should give hope to anyone over age 65 who has bought into the myth that "it's too late for me". If you are "middle aged" or older, this is a "must read" book. If you are younger, get a head start on designing a fabulous future for yourself. Don't Stop the Career Clock will show you how to do it.