Work · Age 52
I thought my 50s would be the easy run to retirement
Months at risk, one horrible job, two senior offers and an unexpected discovery: I hadn't lost my appetite for challenge. I'd lost my tolerance for bad pressure.
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The Final Working Years
I thought my 50s would be a fairly straight run towards retirement. It turns out the final working years can still change direction completely.
This isn't career advice, and it isn't a lifestyle blog. It is a record of real decisions made when retirement had stopped being something vague in the distant future.
Some of the opportunities were planned. Most were not. Work changed, health changed how I looked at time, family life changed, and I found myself making choices I had not expected to be making in my 50s.
Each story sticks to three things: what happened, what changed in how I judged it, and what question somebody else might ask themselves.
Decision stories
Money · Age 53
Retirement planning gets weird quite quickly
Two very different ways of funding the same retirement ended up much closer than expected. Then tax, market risk and the value of certainty made the comparison a lot less simple.
Read the story →The rule for this section.
Career and work decisions are the spine. Health, family, money and the rest of life only belong here when they materially changed the decision or how I judged it.
Career and work decisions are the spine. Health, family, money and the rest of life only belong here when they materially changed the decision or how I judged it.