CHAPTER 2
How Retirement Changes Your Identity . . . and Your Life
Health and wealth. Those two things are foremost in people’s minds as they near the end of their working careers. Can I afford to retire? Will I be healthy enough to enjoy it? Research shows that when people are able to answer those two questions favorably, they’re much happier in retirement. No surprise there.
But there are other questions that people often find themselves asking after they’ve left the workplace for good. Who am I now? When people ask me what I do, what do I even tell them?
Work is such a huge part of our identity. Retirement untethers us from how we think of ourselves in a fundamental way. And a new study ...
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