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The Retirement Newsletter: Do you need a work detox?
Issue Number: 182 (35) — Do you need to detach from your former life?
Welcome
Welcome to issue number 182 (35). And if you are wondering about the photo, it has nothing to do with this week’s subject; I like the image and thought I would share it.
Last week, in issue 181 (35) — Fighting 50 years of programming — I wrote about how important I thought it was to break our programming in our retirement. My argument was that through education and our working lives, we are programmed to work and think in a particular way, and the programming could hold us back from getting the most from our retirement.
This week, I am continuing the theme of breaking the programming by examining how we can draw a line under our working lives and move on — something I’m calling the work detox.
This need to draw a line may not apply to all careers and work. But I’ve certainly found it to be true for my career as a scientist and an educator. When I retired, I was still left with particular “itches” that needed to be scratched from my career. And I knew that if I didn’t scratch them, I would have trouble settling into retirement.
