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[quote=Anonymous]I worked with someone who was concerned about what her legacy would be from her career and she mentioned this a lot in the years prior to retirement.

When she retired, the entire nature of her job was revised, and no one brought up her contributions as being useful. They did everything differently. No one even talked about her personality or management style, which was a positive thing about her. Over time, no one mentioned her. The only thing worse were those who left and for whom we had bad memories and talked about negatively. So I guess I strive to not end up as one of those people. Forgotten is better than that.

Maybe we just do the best we can with the least harm. The future belongs to the younger generations.

I think if we leave behind something to help our kids launch themselves and if they have mostly decent memories of us, that's enough.

I think it's an idea that asks us to keep working towards some goal and that there will be some prize at the end of life.

One legacy will be that I had good financial and legal planning, and it will be somewhat easy to settle my estate. My parents were like that and it was very helpful. Maybe that's not a legacy, but it is one thing I remember with gratitude about my parents. [/quote]

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