How you exit your career is equally important as when you began your career. Many of the patterns you adjusted to when you first began working, such as a new schedule or a new place to go each day, are experienced in reverse when you end your career and begin your retirement.
Why should your career exit be considered as important as your entry? Because the daily patterns and quite often the identity you established while working become undone when you leave your job.
As you transition from work to retirement, and the reality of your new life begins, you may discover that you are struggling to set up new patterns in your daily life, patterns you never needed to explore before. How will you structure your days when you don’t need to go to work? What will be your new identity without your career job?
These are just a few of the considerations I explore with my clients as they prepare for retirement or as they experience their transition into retirement. ~ Dr. Esther