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When retirement means losing your sense of purpose

My students keep telling me I changed their lives and I am retiring next month after thirty-one years teaching high school English and I am terrified that without the classroom I am nobody.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Identity built through service to others faces extinction when that service ends.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Work as legacy — when the work outlasts you?”

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