Don't define yourself by what your work was.

by Miles , CIVITATES AMERICAE, Thursday, August 01, 2019, 18:29 (1729 days ago) @ Murphy

5 years ago, I retired from my second career and I've no plans to retire from a third.

I wasn't the only one who noticed a significant fraction of the guys I worked with in my first career end up as pictures in the obits within 2 years after retiring.
It got me to really thinking about it long before I even got close to that first retirement.

I began to ponder on the fact that they had spent 30-40 + years since their military obligation (yea, I'm dating myself) working that one thing and had mentally defined their lives by that.

It figures that when they ceased doing their work, what they were in their minds ceased, and so did their lives.

So, don't do that!