The middle years
“What was the work that filled most of your forties?”
Tips for asking
The role, the days, the people you saw every week, what you came home with on your shoulders.
Listen for
Were you the worker you'd hoped you'd be by then?
More from The middle years
“If you became a parent, what kind of parent did you turn out to be — at school gates, at the kitchen table, on a hard day?”
“Was there a midlife illness — yours, or someone close to you — that changed your sense of time?”
“Tell me about a colleague or boss in midlife who made you better at what you did.”