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present singular third person recareers · participle present recareering · participle past recareered · past recareered · alternative re-career
- To change career, especially to something unrelated to one's previous profession.
Although there is modern career theory to support this cohort of workers, it is not being used in an effective way for older workers who recareer from an organisational role.
2022, Clare Mulligan-Foster, Contextual influences on the decision to recareer from an occupational role to a contemporary career for workers aged over 50, Birkbeck, University of London, page 32 more examples
To […] the late Dr. Jose Gallardo, commissioner of education, Puerto Rico, who recareered into law at the age of seventy; […] to the late Roby Kidd, who recareered from being a YMCA director to being the world president of International Adult Education; […]
1983, Roger W. Axford, Successful Recareering: How to Shift Gears Before You're Over the Hill, →ISBN, page ivPeople will literally stop working for a year or more, perhaps at age forty or fifty or even later, not so much to refresh and renew themselves for their current careers or jobs but to begin the process of re-careering, choosing to enter completely new lines of work.
2017, Michael G. Zey, Ageless Nation: The Quest for Superlongevity and Physical Perfection, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 63
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recareer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recareer
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