A coworker my age dropped dead of a heart attack last week, and now I sit at my desk doing the same reports and can't stop doing the math on how many working years I have left. It's supposed to make things clear, they say. Right now it just makes me anxious and a little lost, staring at a career that suddenly has an end.
More people experience this than they realize.
You're starting to feel that your working life is finite, and it unsettles more than it clarifies.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.