Retired coworkers rarely say they miss the work. They say they miss the people on break.

People remember the fifteen minutes at the back door rather than the tasks. The work is the official content, and the company is what made forty years of it bearable, which is worth knowing before choosing where to spend your own time. Nobody comes back years later and says they miss the schedule.

Take your break with the others this week instead of alone with your phone. Learn one fact about somebody you currently know only by a first name. A job gets remembered as the people in it, and that is partly a matter of who you talk to.