Have You Started Thinking About Retirement?

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Once you’re ready to retire, you’ll need a plan for how to spend your time. And once your job title is gone, you’ll need to figure out who you are now, not to mention what brings you joy. Finding purpose and a new identity are key to living a healthy, happy post-work life. Women who have very recently retired describe what they’ve been up to (it sounds rewarding!), as well as the unexpected emotions that the transition has brought up. They also reflect on the questions they asked themselves (or wished they had) before leaving their careers behind.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:17.0	absolutely free at NetSuite.com slash women at work.
0:21.0	That's NetSuite.com slash women at work.
0:27.0	Amy G, how do you think you'll introduce yourself when you're no longer a writer
0:33.0	and contributing editor to HBR and you're no longer a co-host of this podcast
0:38.0	and all the other things you do?
0:40.0	I know you'll always be an author, but how else do you think you'll describe yourself?
0:45.0	Is it bad that that question makes me want to cry?
0:50.0	Because I don't have an answer.
0:54.0	I mean, I don't know.
0:57.0	And I know I'll have to do a lot of work between now and that moment whenever it is
1:03.0	to actually figure out what is my identity as a person post all of these work identities.
1:10.0	How about you? How do you think about it?
1:13.0	Well, I kind of sense a chill through me.
1:17.0	And I'm a lot closer to that moment than you are.
1:21.0	You know, I thought about what I would do.
1:24.0	I so love what I do now, the idea of not doing it kind of scares me.
1:29.0	And then I sort of, I tantalize myself in quiet moments with what I could do.
1:36.0	I could volunteer at the animal shelter where we got one of my dogs.
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