I spent twenty-three years building a restaurant that was everything to me and we had to close during the pandemic and now I walk past the empty space every day going to my new job at the bank and I feel like I buried a child.
More people experience this than they realize.
The loss of life's work creates a unique grief that combines professional identity with personal mortality.
“Where Are You with Work as legacy — when the work outlasts you?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.