The Retirement Newsletter: Should I treat my retirement like a career?

Issue Number: -63 — working at your retirement?

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Welcome

Welcome to issue number -63. This week, I will examine whether I should treat my retirement as a career.

What is retirement, and should we treat it as a new career?

Last week in issue -64, I looked at retirement. And I asked, why do we retire, and should we retire?

The Retirement Newsletter: Have we got retirement wrong?

From the age of 5, we are on a “moving walkway” — we go to school, we go to college, we go to university, and then we go to work. OK, some of us may skip some steps, but for most people, it is education and then on to work.

And that takes us pretty much from the age of five through to sixty-five.

So, for 60 years, most of us have been on a defined path: education leads to work, and work leads to retirement.

My father’s generation tended to go into a job when they left school (in his case, he left…