Interview series

The Next 20 Years

Conversations with people who were not finished. Same five questions every time.

“I stopped treating thirty years of experience as the end of the learning and started treating it as the material.”

Marguerite, 58

Runs a paid apprenticeship that places school leavers with local electrical and plumbing firms

“Retirement was not a plan. It was the absence of one, and I had four decades to notice that and did not.”

Makes and sells hardwood kitchen furniture from a two-person workshop he opened at sixty-one

“Useful work did not become less useful because I got older. It only became harder to get invited to.”

Coordinates a nine-village book exchange network and a weekly reading hour for children