She Worked 25 Years for This? Year 2 Retirement Update.
What happens when you walk away from a career you've spent 25 years building? Nearly two years into early retirement, Laura's answers might surprise you. She retired at 51 after a career in biomedical research, including 13 years running her own laboratory. Before leaving, she had plenty of questions. Would she miss the work? Her colleagues? The sense of purpose and identity that came with being a scientist? And what would happen when the structure she'd known for decades dropped away? Now that she's had some time to experience life after work, we're revisiting those questions. We talk about…
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