ABSTRACT

Most people think of work as what they do for a living, yet perhaps only in retirement they discover it is much of whom they have become. When we abandon work, or it abandons us, we always leave part of ourselves behind; but if we have allowed work to absorb most of ourselves and our days, we leave even more. The problem then is this: Do we simply continue as a “former manager” or do we decide to go on and become something else?