I saw this by Alexander Kjerulf, AKA the Chief Happiness Officer (CHO), from his blog by the same name. It’s a great article and I think pretty relevant for the discussions here.

Our thinking about the causes of stress is very simlar to how many of us think we can end our Disquiet by changing jobs, marriages or cars. And how it’s believed that much of our stress come from our work. Actually, the stress comes from how we relate to our work, not the work itself.

Alexander and I agree: The key to working with your Disquiet as I talk about it here, and the key to working with your stress, is to look at how you are relating to it. That’s where to look at making changes.

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A key component in men’s Disquiet is the issue around work and career. A man’s sense of well being and being successful as a man is tied to his sense of success in his work. As the baby boomers hit retirement age, we are seeing new ways of entering the second phase of our life. Many are starting second and third careers. There is a great opportunity to create work that is meaningful and rewarding. This is from a great post I read on LifeTwo.com (www.lifetwo.com):

Interesting post at AARP about midlife career changes. If you are going to work until 65, then changing careers at 58 may not make sense as you only have 7 years left of your working life and are likely to take an earnings hit in the new career. You simply might not be able to afford to make the change no matter how much you want to do so.

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“You see,” he begins, “80 percent of people die naked and 70 percent die in the toilet. That means most people die naked in the toilet.”

Boy, doesn’t that pop the long-held version you always had in your head of how you might die peacefully in bed or go out in a blaze of glory a la some heroic movie scene?

Mike Thomas is a contract “body retriever” for the Detroit Coroner’s Office. In an story by the NYT (“Body Collector in Detroit Answers When Death Calls ”, by Charlie LeDuff, published: September 18, 2006), he shared is perspective on life and death.

He is a father of 3 kids trying to make it on 14,000 a year. He gets $14 for picking up a human body, $9 for an animal. (more…)

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