Middlescence

A portmanteau of middle-aged and adolescence/senescence used to describe restless, middle-aged baby boomers (ranging from age 35-60) who deal with the negatives of frustration, burnout, boredom, confusion and alienation, but the daunting positives of self-discovery, new directions and beginnings. It’s variably described as adolescence the second time around and a time of hot flashes, midlife crises and midlife magic
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One article in the Harvard Business Review deals with the challenge of middlescence among employees.
Then comes middlescence, and the years of bad health habits catch up.
In the context of societies with a growing gray population, discussions about middlescence pushes old age further away.
'Middlescent'
As adolescence is the best time for a person to grow and decide the path he wants to take in life, Erickson insists that middlescence , as she calls it, is the perfect period for a person to replot his career curve.
I am 60, going on 16
Morison, Erickson and Dychtwald's (2006) Managing Middlescence is typical in its simplistic assumption of the obviousness of when midcareer is, focusing on the human capital significance of this group when they state: 'Midcareer employees--those between 35 and 54--make up more than half of the workforce' (p.
How time-flow shapes three meanings of midcareer
In short, Middlescence is like adolescence - without the spots and the bog roll in the bra.
My slide into the pits of Middlescence began last month when I turned 39.
Life's Cher hell when you're a Middlescent
According to the report, Managing Middlescence published by Harvard Business Review, 'many mid-career employees are working more, enjoying it less and looking for alternatives'.
Do you leave work 'burned out, bottle-necked and bored'? Then you may be a middlescent
Perhaps middlescence will be followed by post-middlescence or some other form of snake oil that softens the undeniable eventuality The search for eternal youth has been replaced by the hope that middle age might last forever.
Instead, they are subliminally conned into believing that the Madison Avenue handstand of middlescence will halt all fears of the grim reaper.
Boomers discover mortality. (Stresslines)
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