I enquired my father if he ever felt this in his life, and he disclosed that he has been on the positive and the negative side of the social clock. He explained in his career, he accelerated quickly. He saw being ahead of the social clock in his professional life motivating and he wanted to keep moving forward. In my dad’s personal life he felt behind. He did not marry my mom until he was 32, so in the personal aspect he wanted the clock to slow down. Now that my dad is 52, I asked him about the “Age 50 Transition” as Levinson discussed in his theory. My dad was very honest with me and said, “I do math in my head all of the time. Each year counts more and more and this thing ain’t gonna last forever.” My dad recently made a job transition because his old job was asking him to make unethical decisions at work which he was not comfortable with. He found a new job and admitted that switching jobs recreated positivity in his life because “I lost control of my life at my last job.” My dad has not experienced a “mid-life crisis” is at an excellent place in life
I enquired my father if he ever felt this in his life, and he disclosed that he has been on the positive and the negative side of the social clock. He explained in his career, he accelerated quickly. He saw being ahead of the social clock in his professional life motivating and he wanted to keep moving forward. In my dad’s personal life he felt behind. He did not marry my mom until he was 32, so in the personal aspect he wanted the clock to slow down. Now that my dad is 52, I asked him about the “Age 50 Transition” as Levinson discussed in his theory. My dad was very honest with me and said, “I do math in my head all of the time. Each year counts more and more and this thing ain’t gonna last forever.” My dad recently made a job transition because his old job was asking him to make unethical decisions at work which he was not comfortable with. He found a new job and admitted that switching jobs recreated positivity in his life because “I lost control of my life at my last job.” My dad has not experienced a “mid-life crisis” is at an excellent place in life