“Midlife Crisis” and Career Satisfaction - By Jim Weinstein

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Midlife Crisis and Career Satisfaction - By Jim
Weinstein
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Jim Weinstein is among the most trusted and
well-known career development counselors in
Washington DC. Being a successful and prominent
DC Life Coach, Mr. Weinstein provides exemplary
strategies with his sound guidance on any
challenge. He navigates all types of issues and
provides the best help to improve your work and
relationships. In addition to working as a life
consultant, he is also a licensed psychotherapist
and life coach who provides relationship
counseling. He privately practiced career, life
consulting, and psychotherapy for 18 years. He is
also the former president of SEARCH Alliance,
which is a community-based clinical trials
non-profit organization.
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This post is inspired by an article (actually the
cover story) in The Atlantic magazine, entitled
'The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis." It's a
misleading title, because the article in fact
devotes quite a bit of emphasis to deconstructing
the entire idea of midlife crisis, focusing on
what social scientists increasingly see as a
"Happiness U Curve."
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When plotted on a graph in which the X-axis is
the level of self-reported life satisfaction and
the Y-axis is age, the curve looks like a
cross-section of a bowl, with satisfaction higher
in the late teens and twenties, gradually
declining through the thirties and hitting a low
point in the forties. Somewhat surprisingly then,
satisfaction begins to increase through the
fifties and sixties and is actually highest when
people hit their seventies, until serious health
problems multiply and begin to significantly
impair physical and mental activity. This pattern
is seen across a wide variety of cultures and
geography, and is even purported to hold true for
apes (their "life satisfaction" being measured by
zookeepers).
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"Midlife Crisis," then, is a point of inflection,
where the accumulated impact of the above hits
people, generally in their 40s. The great news is
that, for most people, life will be experienced
as getting better as they age. Hard to imagine
for the young, but true.
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THANK YOU Jim Weinstein