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Business | Bartleby<br>Why you should never retire<br>Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling<br>Share
Illustration: Paul Blow
Jan 25th 2024|4 min read
In an episode of “The Sopranos”, a popular television series which started airing in the 1990s, a gangster tells Tony, from the titular family, that he wants to retire. “What are you, a hockey player?” Tony snaps back. Non-fictional non-criminals who are considering an end to their working lives need not worry about broken fingers or other bodily harm. But they must still contend with other potentially painful losses: of income, purpose or, most poignantly, relevance.
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