For most men, work isn't just what they do — it's a fair chunk of who they are. This makes their working years hard in some ways and retirement hard in quite another. This section covers the psychology of both stress, burnout and purpose at work, and the identity questions that tend to arrive shortly after the leaving party. You should find the articles informed, straightforward and without the career-coach enthusiasm."
Work And Retirement
In 1688, nostalgia became a medical diagnosis. Three centuries later, it has been downgraded to a feeling and the opening line of roughly every second conversation after the age of sixty.
Work And Retirement
You're sitting in the car with the engine switched off. You're not on the phone or listening to music, or even wondering whether you remembered to buy milk. You're just sitting there. You probably don't know why. But that tiny stretch of time in the car is where this article begins.
Work And Retirement
Redundancy is discussed almost entirely in financial terms. This is understandable, but the money is rarely what actually does the damage. The real damage is considerably less visible, less discussed, and worth more understanding.
Work And Retirement
During the middle years, the relationship between money and identity undergoes a shift that the financial planning industry covers in considerable detail, yet the psychological dimension is hardly touched on.
Work And Retirement
Changing career after 40 is either the most sensible thing a man can do with the second half of his working life, or a moderately terrifying leap into the unknown dressed up as liberation. In most cases, it is both of these things simultaneously.
Work And Retirement
If you retired over a decade ago and still find yourself back at the office every time you close your eyes, you are not going mad. You are, however, more interesting to psychologists than you might like to be.
Work And Retirement
There comes a point in most working lives, a man looks up from whatever he's doing and thinks: is this it? The honest answer, for a significant number of people, is yes. This article is about what to do with that.
Work And Retirement
There's a point in the first year of retirement, usually around Tuesday afternoon, it dawns on most men that endless freedom and purposeless emptiness are much harder to tell apart than the brochure suggested.
Work And Retirement
Work is not just what men do. For most men, it is a substantial part of what they are. Which makes whatever happens to it — stress, redundancy, retirement — considerably more than a practical problem.