MISSING OUT OR FEELING CHEATED – AT WORK (DISAPPOINTMENT)

The moment of realization that they are not only disillusioned with their work but also disappointed with themselves can be chastening. Nothing seems to go right, work least of all. Their career has come to a halt and work represents hell. Life, it seems, has them trapped unfairly, one survivor, an ex-gynaecologist now running an art gallery in Italy, sums up this moment: 7 thought surely there must be more to life than this job, retirement and death.’

With sympathetic help and understanding an M-M man can at this point shake off the sense of defeat or revise his ambitions and priorities. Perhaps he can be encouraged to realize a life’s dream of moving to the country to open a bookstore, for example, or to the coast and owning a boat. Without help at this moment the risk is a man can become a middle-aged dropout — and there are many of those to be seen in countries where the cost of living is low, the sun high and the drink cheap.

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