So true, and I realize I have many silver linings in my life and I am indeed sweating very small stuff...Long story short is I have worked at the same company for 28 years, since I was a young woman and now I am an older woman. My many mentors have retired recently and now I sit with a feeling of isolation in a place that I have been for a very long time. I miss my mentors who have retired onto greener pastures and am crying like a baby at the changes coming on...it's all Bullshit and I will survive it...I work from a home "satellite" office and have done so for 19 of the 28 years I have worked for this employer and now that my rocks have left I feel I am afloat...without them...I don't feel a part of my workplace anymore...I feel so alone without my rocks that have left.