We're living longer than we used to.

So either out of choice or necessity, we're working longer.

The idea of three stages of life, learning, earning, and then retiring is increasingly

outdated.

So many people, like Tom Andrew, are working full careers and then relatively late in

life, reinventing themselves.

I'm Anthony Brooks in for Magna Chakrabardi and this is on point.

This hour, how to design life's third act.

Tom Andrew is with us right now and Tom, great to have you.

Thanks for coming in.

Thanks so much for having me, Anthony.

So Tom, you worked for decades as a doctor, including 20 years as the chief medical examiner

for the state of New Hampshire.

But at the age of 61, and that was a few years ago, you'd had enough.

What happened?

Well, indeed.

I don't know that it's so much of a reinvention as it is kind of a sublimation of everything

that came before it.

But my goal at the beginning was to serve 20 years.

The only question was what would come after that.

But my experience with the opiate crisis sort of solidified the direction I would eventually

take.

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