IF YOU'RE middle-aged, been recently laid off and think early retirement is the best option in this gloomy market, hold your horses.
Embarking on a socially productive second career may be a better option than drifting through the next 30 years of life in languor, loneliness and even poverty.
Despite an epoch-changing recession, millions of older folk are flooding fields such as social services, health care and education in the United States, and finding both meaning and money in it.
Read Radha Basu's full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
