You have accomplished a lot. You are not finished.

“I stopped treating thirty years of experience as the end of the learning and started treating it as the material.”

Marguerite, 58

Runs a paid apprenticeship that places school leavers with local electrical and plumbing firms

“Retirement was not a plan. It was the absence of one, and I had four decades to notice that and did not.”

Declan, 64

Makes and sells hardwood kitchen furniture from a two-person workshop he opened at sixty-one

“Useful work did not become less useful because I got older. It only became harder to get invited to.”

Priya, 71

Coordinates a nine-village book exchange network and a weekly reading hour for children