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How to Find Meaning After Retirement

I retired last month after forty years teaching and I feel completely purposeless, like I was useful once but now I'm just taking up space.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The end of career can feel like the beginning of social irrelevance and personal obsolescence.

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