Author: marvinmidlife

A middle aged man trying to avoid a midlife crisis while navigating redundancy, health problems and life in general.

hip replacement story starting with arthritis

Hip replacement recovery days 6 to 21. Coming on in leaps and bounds. Sadly not. (Part 5)

Posted on February 11, 2020January 7, 2021 by marvinmidlife

Hip replacement recovery story: the day 6 to day 21 improvements post hip replacement operation

5 crucial midlife fashion questions I need answering fast. Can anyone help?

Posted on February 6, 2020June 17, 2020 by marvinmidlife

Midlife male fashion can be difficult to gauge. You need to be careful about getting it wrong. Some questions need answering about what to wear.

Hip replacement surgery and week 1 recovery. It all goes horribly wrong… (Part 4)

Posted on January 30, 2020January 7, 2021 by marvinmidlife

Hip replacement surgery is supposed to be routine, but I had a horrible blip. A tale of the operation, blip and recovery.

Scarily close to middle age hip replacement. What was I thinking pre-op? (Part 3)

Posted on January 13, 2020January 7, 2021 by marvinmidlife

Having signed up to a middle age hip replacement, the day fast approached. I occasionally had doubts but pain convinced me otherwise. This is the story of what happened next…

Shock decision about having a total hip replacement at 50! 5 things that worried me. (Part 2)

Posted on December 16, 2019January 7, 2021 by marvinmidlife

Total hip replacement at 50 needs some thinking about. This is part 2 of my total midlife hip replacement story – how it came to be

Work meetings a disaster? 6 things you can do to stop wasting your life.

Posted on December 10, 2019March 22, 2020 by marvinmidlife

The truth about work meetings and some ideas on how to improve them

11 things to know about surviving a midlife crisis in Las Vegas

Posted on December 10, 2019January 3, 2021 by marvinmidlife

11 things to consider if you’re visiting Las Vegas as part of a midlife crisis

10 surprising redundancy facts to know if you’re leaving soon…

Posted on November 20, 2019June 17, 2020 by marvinmidlife

10 things you need to understand when you leave a job to keep your sanity

What does Daddy do all day? Getting traumatised by Loose Women isn’t all fun.

Posted on November 19, 2019March 22, 2020 by marvinmidlife

What do you fill your days with when you’re redundant? Daytime TV anyone?

Shockingly I won’t be the next CEO. So what is midlife career end-game?

Posted on November 16, 2019February 12, 2020 by marvinmidlife

I won’t be the next CEO. And nor will you (probably). So what does that mean for your career and sanity midlife?

The dangerous minefield that is middle aged male grooming

Posted on November 14, 2019February 12, 2020 by marvinmidlife

Midlife male grooming used to be passing a comb through a receding hairline. Now it seems to more commonplace, but can be a midlife minefield

Devastatingly made redundant and left with just a biro and a book. How?

Posted on November 12, 2019June 10, 2020 by marvinmidlife

My second redundancy was when the dot.com bubble burst

A brilliant excuse. Is daydreaming in dull meetings part of evolutionary make-up?

Posted on November 7, 2019June 8, 2020 by marvinmidlife

Office meetings can be dull, but are a necessary part of work life even if half the room is daydreaming or messaging their friends. It’s an evolutionary thing.

Amazing new skills you can develop midlife, including dishwasher stacking

Posted on November 6, 2019June 8, 2020 by marvinmidlife

MIdlife is the opportunity to learn new skills. Dishwasher stacking seems to be the most pressing.

Camping or canal boat holiday? What’s better for grumpy middle aged men?

Posted on November 4, 2019January 3, 2021 by marvinmidlife

Is a canal boat holiday better than camping in a tent? Or should you just hotel instead?

What makes an attractive organisation? We’re a sucker for our emotions

Posted on November 2, 2019January 8, 2021 by marvinmidlife

How do we make decisions about companies to join? What makes an attractive organisation – emotion or fact based?

My body used to fix itself…sadly it doesn’t any more and so midlife arthritis ends with a hip replacement story (Part 1)

Posted on October 31, 2019January 4, 2021 by marvinmidlife

Arthritis isn’t for old people, it can strike at any time if you’re unlucky. The start of a hip replacement story.

Exciting role playing doesn’t just happen in the bedroom, it happens in interviews too.

Posted on October 24, 2019June 8, 2020 by marvinmidlife

Role playing interviews are becoming common – but do they work?

Wearing inappropriate interview clothing could cost you the job. What should you wear?

Posted on October 24, 2019June 7, 2020 by marvinmidlife

What should the middle aged man wear to an interview?

Waiting for recruitment responses and watching the tumbleweed roll past. It’s a lonely place.

Posted on October 19, 2019June 11, 2020 by marvinmidlife

How it was tumbleweed rather than job offers that rolled in after being made redundant, despite some effort being made

Can resorting to powerful chemicals to enhance midlife romance actually deliver?

Posted on October 18, 2019June 7, 2020 by marvinmidlife

One man’s experience of using chemicals to pep up middle aged sex life

A dad’s childbirth story. It’s scary down there.

Posted on October 18, 2019January 8, 2021 by marvinmidlife

The story of how a new father came into the world during the birth of his child

Shock of middle-aged man in Turkish barber experience. Is it the answer to midlife grooming?

Posted on October 18, 2019February 12, 2020 by marvinmidlife

How a haircut in a Turkish barber broadens the mind for a middle-aged bloke used to short back and sides