Going somewhere

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  I am standing here and looking into the future. It is an open space. There are no frontiers; there are no roads. I am thinking and hoping for bright colors. It is bluish and watery. There are no images; there are no sketches. I am crying and following my disordered feelings. It is high […]

A lot of possibilities?

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  Maybe this Indian boy hasn’t seen any Europeans before; maybe he is shy by nature. His father in his traditional dress took him to town to buy a few things. Which world will he be living in in 20 years? Will it be the modern India? Will he be doing the bookkeeping or will […]

The 50+ thin-skinned elephant

Posted Posted in 50+, Switzerland, Thinking

Looking for a job at the age of fifty plus, this is something for thick-skinned creatures. I thought to be one of them, but I was totally wrong. The longer it lasted, the more I lost self-confidence. Everybody told me to believe in myself; everybody was convinced that I would find again a good job. […]

Fifty plus

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Fifty plus starts being a tough age, not for private reasons but for professional ones. One becomes too expensive to get employed. I met Antoinette in a course for unemployed people. She had the idea to start her own business by consulting laundries and cleaning stores and needed some help creating her corporate identity and […]