After 40 Years in Business, Am I Still Relevant?
Your career can take decades to build, and it can still leave you asking a quiet, unsettling question: am I actually still relevant? I’m Eric Dickmann, and I’m thinking out loud about what happens when our professional identity is built on titles, company brands, and organizational authority, then life shifts. Consulting, fractional leadership, layoffs, and stepping away from “big company” status can make relevance feel like it evaporates overnight, even when your skills haven’t gone anywhere.
We dig into the real tension of the second half of a career: experience and judgment should be at…
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