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The Retirement Newsletter: Ten reasons why I won’t be retiring in 2022

Issue Number: -105 — why I can’t retire in 2022?

Nick
5 min readJan 16, 2022
Ten reasons why I won’t be retiring in 2022
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Welcome

Welcome to issue -105.

In this week’s issue, I will be looking at ten reasons why I won’t be retiring in 2022.

Ten reasons why I won’t be retiring in 2022

In issue -111, I looked at 10 reasons why I should retire in 2022, and these were:

  1. My pension pot is looking pretty healthy
  2. Can I continue to do my job?
  3. The twenty-plus rule
  4. COVID-19 — the commute is killing me
  5. COVID-19 (again) — there is more to life
  6. COVID-19 (and again) — the risk
  7. I want to do other things
  8. Get back control
  9. My friends keep retiring

But, there are also ten reasons why I shouldn’t retire in 2022, and those are:

1. Money

In 10 reasons why I should retire in 2022, I said my pension pots are looking healthy and that I felt I could afford to retire, but things would be tight. If I wait a couple of years to my planned retirement date…

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Nick
Nick

Written by Nick

A scientist and an educator that is planning for the future. The story of my journey from employed to semi-retired and on to fully retired.

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