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 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!…

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…