A few observations: 1. The author seems to have some anxiety and finding the source of that may help. Being needed, feeling important, being able to remain pas

A few observations: 1. The author seems to have some anxiety and finding the source of that may help. Being needed, feeling important, being able to remain passionate about something, interests in growth and growing vs declining and giving in to the decline, feeling like their mental or physical skill is not up to par anymore, etc. Finding the source may help them remedy or replace the growing gap between existing and desired state. 2. Work and its inherent rewards can be addictive and a high impossible to replicate elsewhere. Not being allowed to do it anymore. In many professions that’s a reality ans scary. If you’ve been a surgeon or a pilot or a performer your whole life, losing the high of the work is very hard to impossible to replicate. In those professions a decline in performance is a massive liability and the end of a career can be quite sudden. If they have not found alternative sources of dopamine, retirement can feel like death. 3. Many of us have a compulsion to do things. For some that’s to be useful, for others to create, still others to compete and be the best or richest in something. The downside of useful careers is that usefulness is more easily replaced and forgotten. Creation leaves you with a reputation and by product you can pass on as your legacy, competitiveness marks history or wallet sizes, but usefulness leaves you used, unless you capitalize on it. We had a family friend who was incredibly kind and excellent in their risky and very useful profession. They dedicated their life to that profession and did not have kids as to not lose advancement, and the moment they developed a form of mental decline, they were quickly retired replaced, and likely forgotten. Useful professions are replaceable just as useful tool products are. Capitalize and expand your portfolio of dopamine sources, before you are left used.