Sanjay Mehta For much of our adult lives, a simple question is easy to answer. “What do you do?” The answer comes almost automatically. We are a banker, a doctor, a consultant, a business owner, a CEO, a professor, an engineer. The title may change over the decades, but the pattern remains the same. Our work becomes one of the primary ways in which we introduce ourselves to the world. And then, one day, something changes. You retire. You step back. You sell the business.