Booming Staff Resource

08/23/2007

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

Finding staff for early childhood programs remains a challenge for our field. A report in Work & Family Life (March 2005; [email protected]) offers some new directions for your search. According to the newsletter, the huge generation of baby boomers is now reaching age 60, but retirement is not what increasing numbers of them are thinking about. Many are looking for — or have already begun — a second career. As of now, about 31 percent of baby boomers have already moved into their new careers (with this trend being strongest in the West and Midwest). Some are using their expertise to pursue new opportunities in the service sector. Typically, the new career is a fairly “self-governing" position in line with boomers' desire for independence.

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