After roughly three decades in a career, Eric Vogelsang, director of the Center on Aging at California State University, San Bernardino, says many Gen Xers might have a sense that, if they're going to make a change, it's now or never. 'Thirty years [in the workforce] is a long time,' he says. 'And I think part of it might be that they see this as a final chance to do it.' That was the case for Rosenmiller, whose transition to nursing was the fulfilment of a 30-year-old life goal. 'When I was in college, I was pre-med at the beginning,' she says.

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