Lifting Our Heads and Appreciating the Beauty

This is a chapter about discovering and rediscovering purposes, meanings, and identities throughout our lives, of resilience and reflection, and of finding flow inside and outside of work. It is a chapter about two female public sector professionals, Krista and Ruth, navigating career crises and rising to the challenges of an ever-changing professional landscape – a landscape, much like the area of outstanding natural beauty in which they live, full of wonder and awe but also sharp crags and deep valleys. While both authors’ accounts are about reinventions, they offer different perspectives in time, with Krista exploring ways to remain meaningful and relevant at work and Ruth exploring ways to do the same in retirement.