One man’s take on leaving the safe path after 50—and why risk at midlife might just be the safest thing you can do for your soul.
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Risk? Yeah. Security? Not really. Staying stuck in something that no longer fits felt like the bigger gamble. I started writing freelance in my 50s and took a 50% pay cut at first—but my mental health skyrocketed. Reinvention is scary, but stagnation is scarier.