Abstract
Midlife is the time when those who have been successful exercise position and power in the workplace. Capable and in charge, they experience the financial and emotional gratification of achievement and guide the next generation through their role as mentors. Obviously, this picture does not describe many workers who experience their jobs as drudgery and spend their time dreaming of retirement. Here I plan to focus on the former group, exploring the developmental impacts on attitudes toward work and relationships with colleagues, and describing the fulfillment that work can bring. For it is my belief that work is truly one of the paths, no, one of the broad freeways, which can lead to fulfillment in adulthood.
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Anna Freud, Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development (New York: International Universities Press, 1965), p. 77.
Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society, 2nd ed. (New York: Norton, 1963), p. 255.
Ibid.
Judith M. Bardwick, The Plateauing Trap (New York: American Management Association, 1986).
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Colarusso, C.A. (1994). Work. In: Fulfillment in Adulthood. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6509-7_10
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