Careerwise, especially in our generation, i feel like young women even today, they plan we like plans. we re interested in sort of knowing where we re going, what we re doing. but i never planned after 50 my career. i never even thought about it. did you? no. and i think that first of all, there is a great deal to be said about planning and preparing, and to the extent that i planned for i didn t know what i was planning for, but education was the key in our family. so my parents told us we could do whatever we wanted to do, but education was the key, and that we had to work hard. after that, what i have learned after 50, is that in spite of how much you plan and in spite of how much you prepare, that life has a way of interrupting. ....