Retirement, Reinvention, and the Search for Purpose with George Jerjian
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Retirees rarely say “I’m scared I won’t know who I am,” but it shows up as second-guessing, impulsive decisions, and a nagging emptiness. The default belief is “once I’m secure, I’ll be fine,” yet…
Most employers wait until retirement is close before offering practical support, but by then many employees have already started avoiding the deeper questions about identity, purpose and what life…
A solid retirement plan can still collapse emotionally if the person inside it doesn’t know what they’re living for. Many high-performing professionals assume freedom will automatically feel good…
Many organisations talk seriously about employee wellbeing while people are in the business, but that care often stops at the exact moment someone faces one of the biggest identity shifts of their…
Many organisations invest heavily in onboarding, development and wellbeing, then offer very little emotional or psychological support when long-serving employees approach retirement. George reframes…
When an employee retires, the people still inside the business notice how that exit is handled. If retirement support is purely transactional, it can quietly signal that loyalty ends when…
A lot of people spend decades preparing for the money side of retirement, only to feel unexpectedly adrift once the structure, identity, and meaning that work provided begin to fall away. George…
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