Why retiring from a successful career can be more challenging than we expect — even when we’re looking forward to it. How Do I Reply When People Ask What I Now Do? One of the first questions we usually ask someone we’ve just met is, “What do you do?” For most of our adult lives, it’s an easy question to answer. I’m a lawyer. I’m a banker. I run a business. I’m a partner at a professional services firm. It’s a convenient introduction. But it also tells people something about o

Studying again in your 50s is just one option for your next chapter The old three-stage life is disappearing. What replaces it? For much of the twentieth century, adult life followed a fairly predictable pattern. First came education. Then work. Then retirement. One day you are working. The next you are not. It was a simple, linear model, and for many people it worked reasonably well. You trained for a career, spent 30 or 40 years building it, and eventually stepped away from