What comes after the job is more than free time. These articles are about identity, purpose and the second half of life, written for the change that arrives once the title is gone.
The Retirement Honeymoon, and What Comes After
The first months are wonderful: sleeping without an alarm, the permanent Saturday, the trip you postponed for a decade. Then, somewhere between month…
How to Structure Your Day in Retirement
For forty years something else decided when your day started, when it broke for lunch, and when it ended. Remove that and most people discover the…
Loneliness After Retirement, and How to Rebuild a Circle
Loneliness after retirement is one of the most common and least discussed parts of leaving work, and it is not a sign that something is wrong with…
What to Do After Retirement: How to Find Purpose and Structure
You retired, and instead of relief you feel oddly adrift. That is normal, and it is fixable. What to do after retirement is less about filling time…
Who Am I After Retirement? How to Rebuild Your Identity and Purpose
If you feel like you disappeared the day you retired, you are not broken and you are not alone. For decades your job answered the question of who you…