The Boss Is Half Your Age, What Are You Going to Do About It?

By Gary R. McClain, Ph.D. 

Meet your new boss. She's about the same age as your oldest child. Feel your heart drop into the pit of your stomach about the same time that your jaw lands on the keyboard? Welcome to another wrinkle in the continuing saga called maturity!

Traditionally, the workplace reflects the natural progression of professional development. Even into our 40s, our superiors are often older than us, while our professional peers are in our own age group, and the new kids on the block are just that: Kids.

That is, until a young hotshot is brought in to provide new direction, if not shake things up. Or you become more specialized in your professional niche and step off the management track. Or the organization restructures. Feeling doomed to a replay of "Death of a Salesman?" Not if you think and act strategically.

Encore Careers: Dick Goldberg

After working 25 years as a writer, Dick followed his heart and helped launch a Philadelphia nonprofit that helps individuals explore their future.

Dick Goldberg began his encore career as National Director of Coming of Age after working as a freelance writer for 25 years. He wrote an off-Broadway drama, Family Business; episodes of the PBS-TV series, American Playhouse, and two TV series, Kate and Allie and MacGyver; a feature film, The Imagemaker; and the Franklin Institute Omnimax film Philadelphia Anthem. He’s also written book and restaurant reviews for The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer and was a Guggenheim fellow.

It's Never Too Late to Follow Your Dreams

By Prill Boyle

Have you ever wondered what your calling is?

Not long ago, I began a speech by asking how many members of my middle-aged audience still didn't know what they wanted to be when they grew up. After a few giggles, more than a quarter of the people in the room raised a hand.

Some might argue that if you haven't found a calling by the time you're in midlife, chances are you won't. Meg Wolitzer, author of The Ten-Year Nap, goes even further. In a New York Times interview, she once declared: “The notion that everyone has a calling, that everyone has a talent, that everyone has a passion, isn't true.”

City Market Summer Book Sale Series

Saturday, September 4, 2010
8:00am

400 West Grand, North Walkway next to Steamboat Arabia 

On the first Saturday of every month this summer (May-October) in the City Market, 400 Grand St., Kansas City, MO, the Friends of the Library will hold a series of book sales on the North Walkway next to the Steamboat Arabia. Book sales will continue through October.

The books range in price from $0.50 to $5.00 and cover many genres.

For additional information, contact KCLibraryFriends@gmail.com, or call (816) 701-3468.

Spend your lunchtime with local children!

Everyday, volunteers help plate and deliver about 200 hot and healthy lunches to students in grades Kindergarten through Fifth at Gordon Parks Elementary. We have an immediate need for YOU to join our team and help serve lunches one day per week during the school year.

Lunchtime Helpers enjoy interaction with students, providing a nutritious meal, and teamwork with staff and other community volunteers.

Requirements & Skills:

• Stand and Plate Food for 90 Minutes

• Lunchtime Helpers are required to submit an application, pass a background check and screening, and meet with the Volunteer Coordinator prior to start of service

• Volunteers must be dependable and consistent, able to volunteer at least twice a month during the school year.

Located:

Gordon Parks Elementary

3715 Wyoming, Kansas City, MO 64111

Click here to volunteer!

Blood Transport Driver

Community Blood Center is currently looking for energetic people to become volunteer Blood Transport Drivers. It is another opportunity to become part of the lifesaving team.

By volunteering your time with Community Blood Center you join an organization committed to providing safe and reliable blood services to 75 hospitals in 70 counties throughout Missouri and Kansas.

• Flexible hours suit your schedule
• Training and vehicles provided
• Driver's License and Insurance required
• Ability to lift 45 lbs

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Part-Time Youth Mentor

Synergy Services, Inc. has an immediate need for a Part-Time Mentor for Youth to work in our Transitional Living Program Department.

The hours are somewhat flexible but must be willing to work every Monday and Tuesday evening and attend a staff meeting every Thursday from 2:30 - 4:30.

This position is responsible for working with youth ages 16-21 who are in Synergy's Transitional Living Program. This position works 2-3 hours with each youth per week.

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YouthFriends

YouthFriends is a rapidly growing school-based mentoring network that connects caring adult volunteers with young people.

Mentor kids in schools. It’s fun, flexible and makes a difference. One hour a week is all it takes to make a big difference in the life of a young person. Become a YouthFriends volunteer today.

Steps to Becoming a YouthFriend

Good schools engage the resources of their communities to effect positive outcomes for students. When schools open their doors to volunteers—in a prudent and organized way—everyone wins.Fill out an application

• Consent to a confidential background check (YouthFriends conducts criminal, child abuse and neglect and sex offender registry checks for each applicant who will be working directly with a student on a continuing basis). View screening criteria 
• Once approved, attend a free, two-hour training session

Click here to get involved!

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Volunteer Coordinator

Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) is a non-profit social service agency in Kansas City which exists to lessen the ill effects of sexual assault and abuse through prevention, education, intervention, treatment and advocacy. This individual serves as volunteer coordinator for agency. Provides administrative and program support to MOCSA volunteer program.

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More than 3M seniors may have to switch drug plans

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer

More than 3 million seniors may have to switch their Medicare prescription plan next year, even if they're perfectly happy with it, thanks to an attempt by the government to simplify their lives.

The policy change could turn into a hassle for seniors who hadn't intended to switch plans during Medicare's open enrollment season this fall.

And it risks undercutting President Barack Obama's promise that people who like their health care plans can keep them.

A new analysis by a leading private research firm estimates that more than 3 million beneficiaries will see their current drug plan eliminated as Medicare tries to winnow down duplicative and confusing coverage, in order to offer consumers more meaningful choices. Instead of 40 or more plans in each state, beneficiaries would pick from 30 or so.