But, as a career coach and professor of career management, I have noticed a theme that occurs with this population: they live in the past.

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Yet within it there are traces of the past that surface from time to time, yet one past trace that I'm sure those of us who live in the British Isles have all seen are the coastal defences rapidly constructed during World War II.

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