Takarajimasha releases "How to Quit, Change, and Start a Job from the Age of 50" from Takarajimasha.

How to Quit, Change, and Start a Job

from Age 50"

will be released by Takarajimasya on May 29, 2024. How to Quit, Change, and Start a Job at 50" will be released by Takarajimasya on May 29, 2024.

The book is

packed with tips on new ways of working from the age of 50

. The common belief that "it is difficult to change jobs after the age of 35" has become a thing of the past, and now we hear many stories of people in their 50s and 60s changing jobs and finding new employment. Through specific examples, this book introduces the real choices and present-day situations of people who have made a new start at age 50. The book features the stories of 10 people from various backgrounds, including Osamu Suzuki, a retired broadcaster, and Shinobu Fuji, who became a full-time housewife and then a president.

Experts' Suggestions on How to Work from Age 50

The know-how pages of this book are supervised by Takao Maekawa, president of a human resource development support company, and although the mandatory retirement age of 55 was legal until 1998, nowadays, "people in their 50s and 60s also have their professional lives ahead of them. He suggests that it is important to take the steering wheel of one's own life and look at one's career in the latter half of one's life in terms of "job satisfaction.

Ten

People, Ten Different Ways to Live a New Life from Age 50

The book introduces 10 examples of people who have started a new way of life from age 50. For example, Kunio Maruyama, 55, moved to Innoshima Island in the Seto Inland Sea and started his own business after working in the medical equipment industry for 25 years, and Kazumi Shohaku, 50s, started a confectionery store at age 55 after working as a part-timer. Other diverse lifestyles are also introduced, such as Miyako Ohara, 63, who chose to rehire after retirement from a full-time position at an advertising production company, and Hideyuki Uehara, 59, who made a dual career from the industrial gas industry to become a management consultant and share office manager.

Osamu Suzuki'

s Idea of How to Live in One's 50s

Osamu Suzuki, a retired broadcaster, says that one's 50s is a time when one can put one's vanity and pride in order. The reason for his retirement is "to create a second vocation in life," and he says that a "human health checkup at work," a diagnosis of one's work, will provide hints for finding a new way of life.

Shinobu Fuji'

s Unusual

Career Shinobu Fuji got his first job at the age of 39 and became the president of Dom Dom Hamburger at the age of 52. He introduces his unusual career, which started as a store manager of SHIBUYA109, opened a pub, and became a menu development advisor for Dom Dom Hamburger.

Hints on What Life Should Be Like from Age 50

Mr. Maekawa, a manager of a human resource development support company, explains what life should be like from age 50, and also provides hints for those who are lost and have not yet found what they want to do.

Book Information

"Be Happy! How to Quit, Change, and Start a Job from Age 50" will be released on May 29, 2024, and is priced at 1,210 yen (tax included).