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Bev Houston's avatar

AFTERWORK, rightly, encompasses a full range of endeavors.

I have friends who have taken on part-time work, enjoying extra income and social interaction. Others love being able to volunteer time to causes dear to them. In my husband's case, he has funneled 10 years of creative, sales, leadership and entrepreneurial skills into developing a medical device. It was not an instant disruptor with huge, immediate profits to attract big medical and pharma companies. It has proven to be absolutely of interest and help to doctors and patients in several fields. A younger person might never have had the means or perseverance to culminate what, to our surprise, has become a 10-year project without recompense other than the "joys and challenges of the journey". We now finally await FDA approval and prospects of financial rewards. But best of all is that more worthwhile treatments and ideas (and the needed relationships) have been unlocked and are on the drawing board.

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Betty Chemers's avatar

I like the idea of one’s life course as a group of modules rather than being linear. Very helpful in terms of where one is at a particular time and identifying more opportunities for how one can best spend time ( in terms of real satisfaction).

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