Category Archives: The Future of WorkLife

Walking into my next WorkLife chapter, I’m thinking about the simple daily practices that support my physical and mental wellbeing to keep me grounded in the present while I continue building for the future.

Seven Months to My Next WorkLife Chapter: This month, my writing took me forward with my first published piece, and back to self-discovery, the first body of work I developed. In other ways, I stood still, living with the uncertainty of whether what I want is possible and whether I can make it happen.

I came to Shakespeare and Company because of a book. In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway writes warmly about Sylvia Beach, who lent him books when he couldn’t afford to buy them. A century on, the bookshop that took her name still supports a new generation of writers. A postcard on the people who give forward, and why I want more of that in my WorkLife.

I avoided networking for a long time, but two very different Irish events made me rethink what networking could mean when connection, culture and belonging come first.

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?