Mike Kravinsky has debuted the first episode of his online series about a Baby Boomer’s struggles to reinvent himself after being let go from his job.
Kravinsky is a movie maker who has been chronicling some of the Baby Boomer angst of growing old and -- to some extent -- getting pushed aside.
His new series is entitled “The Nextnik” and the debut episode is one of six about 55-year-old Larry Zimmerman.
Kravinsky explains the series this way: “ Larry is an upper middle management type who is abruptly fired. He never saw it coming. Realizing that he'll never get another job in the same field with the same money, Larry decides to start over and try something new.”
He has a wife, a teen daughter, bills to pay, prescriptions to fill, and we see him in the first episode both shocked at the loss of a job he thought was his forever and being adrift at the prospect of what the hell he’ll do next.
Larry is easily representative of many a Baby Boomer man and woman who has lost a job -- through a layoff, a forced early retirement -- and is figuring out what to do next as a late-in-life encore career.
For them, retirement in the classic sense isn’t an option, for both financial and emotional reasons.
Many are looking at reinvention -- focusing on an untapped skill or lifelong passion in order to earn a living.
With “The Nextnik”, we’ll follow Larry on that journey to see what he comes up with.
See the episode elsewhere on this page.
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