Life Experience: Reinvent yourself in your 50s with a modelling course and career guidance workshop

Writer Stephanie Yeo (centre) practises catwalking while taking off her jacket during Platinum Angels Management's modelling atelier course for women over 50. Photo: Jason Quah

SINGAPORE – At 55, my mother was retired and helping to care for my baby.

Now that I am that age, the “R” word is not in my vocabulary. Why prepare to retire when you can reinvent yourself?

After all, Gen Xers like myself – born from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s – are not just living longer than our parents, but we are also better educated, and more health-conscious, well travelled and tech-savvy. Read more