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
At some 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.