Category Archives: The Future of WorkLife

Eric retired fully after thirty-five years in education — and found it hollow. Now he is wondering whether he can come back to work without slotting back into the old shape.

‘m exploring what it might take to make my WorkLife financially sustainable for the next chapter – sustaining the work I love while creating the freedom to work and live differently.

The next chapter of my WorkLife is beginning to write itself. There are things happening, things developing and things that haven’t happened yet. And there are new questions now about where the writing will take me, what other opportunities might emerge and how I continue to build a WorkLife that gives me the freedom I’m looking for.

The best work I do doesn’t always happen at the laptop. It happens in the space between the doing — walking, stopping, letting my mind go where it wants. A first postcard on the moments of solitude and reflection I protect, and where I want my WorkLife to go next.

I tried something new in my WorkLife: creating and delivering a live online class. When the room wasn’t right, I discovered that creating new work also means understanding the conditions it needs to work well.

Millie is approaching retirement, but she doesn’t want to stop working. Instead, she begins to ask a different question: what could a longer WorkLife look like?

I’m exploring what else my work could become and where it could go. This week, that has meant creating student project opportunities, approaching publications with my writing and thinking, and exploring how professional self-coaching could reach people through organisations.

Nine months from official retirement age, I’m not planning to retire. I’m beginning an experiment instead: exploring how I can design my next WorkLife chapter around how I want to live — with meaningful paid work, writing, learning, travel, walking, connection and more room for life.