Where Does All That Experience Go Now? A long career leaves you with far more than a job title. When your relationship with work changes, an interesting question emerges: what do you want to do with everything you’ve accumulated along the way? Spend several decades in professional life and you acquire rather a lot. There […]

When The Diary Suddenly Looks Different Having more control over your time can sound wonderfully liberating. Then you discover that a completely open diary isn’t necessarily quite as satisfying as you imagined. For years, much of the shape of your week may have been decided before you had very much say in it. There were

I Used to Be When a professional role has helped define you for many years, stepping away from it can open up an unexpected question: who are you when your job title no longer does quite so much of the describing? “So, what do you do?” For years, you probably didn’t have to think very

When You’re Not Quite Sure How You Feel About What’s Changed Leaving a long career – through retirement, redundancy or simply choosing something different – can bring a more complicated mixture of feelings than you expected Perhaps you looked forward to stepping away from work for years. Perhaps the decision was made for you, redundancy