Retire by Degrees

Over the past 18 months or so it seems we’ve heard a lot more about retirement. Some workers were forced into a sooner-than-planned retirement due to Covid furloughs and then layoffs. Others chose out of the workplace for a variety of personal reasons. And, of course, the Great Resignation has gotten plenty of press and emphasized that the conversation isn’t 100% a…

The Wall Street Journal recently published an interesting article on retirement by David Ekerdt who studied retirement and now is IN retirement: https://www.wsj.com/articles/44-years-studying-retirement-11634913113?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1 The article is insightful (and behind the WSJ’s paywall unless you have a subscription or read it via your library) but what surprised me were the reactions it stirred on social media! Some were supportive of working/saving/planning…

This initial post is simply an introduction – and a commitment to you. An introduction in order to explain where this communication fits within all the other information already being published. That is, to lend thinking and a new perspective to a worn-out view of retirement. Working until a “certain age and a certain number of dollars” doesn’t fit our…