Who you'll be, once work isn't the answer

For most of adult life, “what do you do?” has an easy answer. Retirement doesn’t remove the question — it just removes the easy answer.

It’s not about staying busy

The advice to “stay busy” misses the actual problem. Plenty of retirees stay busy and still feel unmoored. The harder, more useful question is what gives you a sense of who you are now that a job title doesn’t answer it for you.